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Fragment of Tomb Cover
before 1955
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
In ivory on a dark brown ground a large-scale roundel is framed by a frieze of running animals containing a pair of confronted ibex on either side of a tree of life. Above is preserved the bottom portion of an identical roundel, and to either side of the main roundel is a fragment from the upper part of a repeated roundel, interrupted by the inclusion of a vertical inscription band in Kufic lettering.
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- Title: Fragment of Tomb Cover
- Date Created: before 1955
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 78.1 x 66 cm (30 3/4 x 26 in.)
- Provenance: Originally reported as having been found at or near Bibi Shahr Banu, near Rayy, Iran, (Mme. Paul [Margurerite] Mallon [d. 1977], Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Textile
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.52
- Medium: Silk: double-face compound twill
- Inscriptions: [al-maw]t bab wa-kull al-nas dakhiluhu ya layta shi-ri ba'd al-bab ma al-d[ar], inna a[l-dar ja]nnah khalid[ah] in 'amilta bi-ma yardá al-Ilah wa-in qasarta fal-nar, fi sanati thaman wa-thamanin wa-thal[a]thami'ah
- Department: Textiles
- Culture: Iran or Iraq
- Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Collection: T - Islamic
- Accession Number: 1955.52
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