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Fragment with Jeweled Cross Flanked by Birds
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This fragmented textile has a jeweled cross at its center, flanked by two multicolored birds with head crests (peahens?). A gold border with jewels and pearls runs near the top of the fragment. Red dots and small green leaves are sprinkled over the field of plain linen. The imagery is tapestry woven with colored wool wefts onto the same linen warps that form the field of plain weave.
This textile was likely a hanging or furnishing in a religious building or Christian home.
The arrangement of the fragments is uncertain.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Nanette B. Rodney
Title: Fragment with Jeweled Cross Flanked by Birds
Description:
This fragmented textile has a jeweled cross at its center, flanked by two multicolored birds with head crests (peahens?).
A gold border with jewels and pearls runs near the top of the fragment.
Red dots and small green leaves are sprinkled over the field of plain linen.
The imagery is tapestry woven with colored wool wefts onto the same linen warps that form the field of plain weave.
This textile was likely a hanging or furnishing in a religious building or Christian home.
The arrangement of the fragments is uncertain.
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