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Fragment with Inscription
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About this work
An archer kneels to left of a tree and the hill to shoot at pair of deer. The polychrome design is repeated across horizontal rows on dark brown ground.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineFragment with Inscription, dated 818 (AH 203), but before 1978. Iraq, Basrah, in the style of the Abbasid period (750–1258). Silk: compound weave; overall: 66.5 x 45 cm (26 3/16 x 17 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1982.17
