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Tiraz textile naming the Abbasid caliph al-Wathiq
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Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art Gift of George D. Pratt 1932.25
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This green-splashed dish,represents the glazed luxury wares being produced in Abbasid Iraq by the late eighth to early ninth century. The rounded walls and slightly everted rim of ...
Epigraphic Textile
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On the central section of this textile, an inscription in monumental thuluth script is repeated twelve times. The text comes from the Sura al-Fath (Victory, 48:3): “And that Allah...
Dance belt
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362-187Hopi woven belt, faja (TK); wool; l. 239 cm., w. 9 cm.; ca. 1880.\Such belts were usually used by women to secure their dress, but on ceremonial occasions men adopted these ...