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Star and Cross Pattern from a Tomb Cover(?)
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About this work
This fragment is one of several that may have come from a tomb in the Caucasus (the region between the Black and Caspian seas). The design displays rows of eight-pointed stars, here with a rooster on a blue ground, alternating with striped pointed crosses.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineStar and Cross Pattern from a Tomb Cover(?), 800s–900s. Byzantium, Islamic or Byzantine periods, 9th -10th Century. Complementary weft-faced plain weave with inner warps (samit); silk; overall: 8.5 x 24.1 cm (3 3/8 x 9 1/2 in.); mounted: 15.2 x 30.5 cm (6 x 12 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1977.17
