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Tiraz textile naming the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim
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Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art John L. Severance Fund 1950.549
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Epigraphic Textile
Epigraphic Textile
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
Dance belt
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 ...
The Naming of St John the Baptist, in the Caligula
Troper
The Naming of St John the Baptist, in the Caligula
Troper
Made up of fragments from a late Anglo-Saxon
liturgical chant book, the Caligula Troper's illuminations
introduce songs which would be inserted into the mass on special
feast days ...