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Ornament from a Tunic: A Hunter Slaying a Lion
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Small round tapestry fragment with a hunter fighting a lion. The active figures are surrounded by plant forms, suggesting that this scene is a hunt occurring in the wild rather than a battle between a venatore and a lion in an arena. This composition recalls representations of Herakles and the Nemean lion. The hunter has curled hair and wears a short tunic that itself features tapestry woven clavi (shoulder bands) and roundels. The border of the roundel is not a smooth band, but instead seems to represent the stem of a vine.
The warps run perpendicular to the direction of the roundel’s design. Supplementary wefts in ‘flying shuttle’ technique create details of the lion, man, and plants.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of The Hagop Kevorkian Foundation in memory of Hagop Kevorkian
Title: Ornament from a Tunic: A Hunter Slaying a Lion
Description:
Small round tapestry fragment with a hunter fighting a lion.
The active figures are surrounded by plant forms, suggesting that this scene is a hunt occurring in the wild rather than a battle between a venatore and a lion in an arena.
This composition recalls representations of Herakles and the Nemean lion.
The hunter has curled hair and wears a short tunic that itself features tapestry woven clavi (shoulder bands) and roundels.
The border of the roundel is not a smooth band, but instead seems to represent the stem of a vine.
The warps run perpendicular to the direction of the roundel’s design.
Supplementary wefts in ‘flying shuttle’ technique create details of the lion, man, and plants.
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