Ancient Art
Public domain

Compound twill

5th–7th century A.D.
17.3 × 21 cm (6 13/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore
1939.635
Culture: 
Syrian or possibly Egyptian
Period: 
5th–7th century
Classification: 
Textiles
Status: 
Not on view
Bibliography: 

Dorothy E. Miner, ed., Early Christian and Byzantine Art: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 25–June 22, exh. cat. (Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum, 1947), 151, no. 766.

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