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Looped Fragment with Square: Hunting Putti and Animals
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Undyed linen cloth has a pile of sehna-knot loops. A monochrome tapestry square had been applied to the cloth. Its design consists of a centrally located medallion with a centaur on hatched background and a vine scroll filling the rest of the square. Footed hunters with missiles and shields fill four corner loops, animals (hares, lion) occupy the side ones.
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: Looped Fragment with Square: Hunting Putti and Animals
Description:
Undyed linen cloth has a pile of sehna-knot loops.
A monochrome tapestry square had been applied to the cloth.
Its design consists of a centrally located medallion with a centaur on hatched background and a vine scroll filling the rest of the square.
Footed hunters with missiles and shields fill four corner loops, animals (hares, lion) occupy the side ones.
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