Cleveland Museum of Art (Egyptian) · textile
Hunters on Horseback
Description
[Egypt, Islamic Abbasid period, late 8th to 9th century] The Byzantine theme of the hunt is depicted with archers on horseback. They face each other because the design was based on costlier Byzantine silks with mirror-image symmetry.
Cross-references (2)
- Wikidata Q79933204 tier-1
- CMA-id 150576 tier-2
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