Compound weft twill. | Yale University Art Gallery

9th century

Not on view

Medium: Compound twill
Dimensions: 3 15/16 × 4 5/16 in. (10 × 11 cm)
Credit Line: Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore
Accession Number: 1937.4606
Culture: Iraqi, Baghdad (?)
Period: 9th century
Classification: Textiles
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Provenance

From an anonymous religuary opened in 1896 in the Cathedral of Sens. Ex-coll. Ackerman - Pope 1936.

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. 767

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