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Tiraz with gold
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About this work
The dominant gold ground of a tripartite band displays horned bovines with cloven hooves alternating with stylized palmette trees flanked by opposing lines of text on the dark blue linen ground. The historical inscription is written in kufic script with elongated bowls of the lower letters. The text and epigraphy indicate a date during the caliphate of al-Zahir (r. 1020–35).
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineTiraz with gold, 1020–35. Egypt, Fatimid period, reign of Caliph al-Zahir, 1020–1035. Plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave: linen, silk, and gold filé; overall: 16.9 x 9.7 cm (6 5/8 x 3 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1982.109
