Roundel from a Curtain
AD 300s
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Roundel from a Curtain, AD 300s. Egypt, Byzantine period, 4th-5th century. Plain weave ground with tapestry weave and supplementary weft wrapping; undyed linen and dyed wool; overall: 45.2 x 47.7 cm (17 13/16 x 18 3/4 in.); mounted: 64.1 x 64.1 x 2.5 cm (25 1/4 x 25 1/4 x 1 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Henry Hunt Clark 1946.412 The purple color was achieved with kermes, a dye derived from the dried bodies of insects of the same name.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Textile
- Formatted Medium
- plain weave ground with tapestry weave and supplementary weft wrapping; undyed linen and dyed wool
- Dimensions
- Overall: 45.2 x 47.7 cm (17 13/16 x 18 3/4 in.); Mounted: 64.1 x 64.1 x 2.5 cm (25 1/4 x 25 1/4 x 1 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1946.412
- Credit Line
- Gift of Henry Hunt Clark
- Exhibitions
- Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation, Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation, The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Coptic Textile Rotation, Designing Identity: The Power of Textiles in Late Antiquity, Coptic Textile Rotation, Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106, Gallery 210 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11, 2000-October 21, 2001); (October 29, 2004-July 18, 2005).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 106A Migration Period & Coptic
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