Grapes and Grape Leaf

Panel from a linen cloth faced with long loops of linen thread. The inwoven slit tapestry square (tabula) introduces wool wefts. At center, a quail with red feet and beak sits with...

This large, horizontally oriented, rectangular album leaf is inscribed with twenty columns of text, the columns with varying numbers of characters and thus of varying lengths. The ...

Two inwoven tapestry woven bands run across this textile. The bands take the form of thick undulating vines with grape leaves occurring at regular intervals. Each leaf is preceded ...

This fragment’s size and double band design suggests that it originally ornamented the sleeve cuff of a tunic. The bands are figured as inhabited grape vine scrolls; each roundel o...