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Textile Fragment: Nereid with Dancers and Charioteers
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Within a medallion, a nereid holding a lyre rides a sea creature. Above her, a man wearing a riding coat stands in front of a horse or mythical animal. Beneath the nereid is a female dancer flanked by two male dancers. Under the dancers are two animals, a rabbit and either a hound or a lion. At the bottom are the remains of two charioteers. The border contains a row of human heads in addition to animals and plants in an architectural motif.
Dark blue and undyed wool.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Nanette B. Rodney
Title: Textile Fragment: Nereid with Dancers and Charioteers
Description:
Within a medallion, a nereid holding a lyre rides a sea creature.
Above her, a man wearing a riding coat stands in front of a horse or mythical animal.
Beneath the nereid is a female dancer flanked by two male dancers.
Under the dancers are two animals, a rabbit and either a hound or a lion.
At the bottom are the remains of two charioteers.
The border contains a row of human heads in addition to animals and plants in an architectural motif.
Dark blue and undyed wool.
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