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Document identity
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127905
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Roundel with seated prince
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127905
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object
title
Roundel with seated prince
date
1000s
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CC0
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CC0
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en
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Q60751740
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Textile
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dimensionsRaw
Overall: 16.5 x 17.2 cm (6 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.)
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Egypt, Fatimid period
accession
1950.541
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plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave: linen, silk, and gold filé
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Roundel with seated prince, 1000s. Egypt, Fatimid period. Plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave: linen, silk, and gold filé; overall: 16.5 x 17.2 cm (6 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1950.541
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Textiles
inscriptions
inscription_translation
Around the simple roundel frame is an inscription in which the word for God is repeated in retrograde.
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Within a simple roundel frame a crowned figure is seated holding two objects in his upraised hands.
citations
citation
Wiet, Gaston. <em>L'Exposition persane de 1931</em>. Le Caire: Impr. de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1933.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 67, no. XII, pl. XXV
citation
Wadsworth Atheneum, Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, and Charles Crehore Cunningham. <em>2000 Years of Tapestry Weaving: A Loan Exhibition: Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Dec. 7, 1951 to Jan. 27, 1952; the Baltimore Museum of Art, Feb. 27, 1952 to Mar. 25, 1952</em>. Hartford, CT: Wardsworth Atheneum], 1951.
page_number
p. 28, cat. no. 48
citation
Shepherd, Dorothy G. "Two Fatimid Tapestry Roundels." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 39, no. 8 (October 1952): 215–217.
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Mentioned and Reproduced
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 690
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 213
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 213
citation
Schapiro, Meyer. "The Miniatures of the Florence Diatessaron (Laurentian Ms Or. 81): Their Place in Late Medieval Art and Supposed Connection with Early Christian and Insular Art." <em>The Art Bulletin</em> 55, no. 4 (1973): 494–531.
page_number
p. 519, fig. 21
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 270
citation
Mackie, Louise W. <em>Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century</em>. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.
page_number
Reproduced: P. 116, fig. 3.33; Mentioned: P. 116, 215
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John L. Severance Fund
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2026-05-29 06:36:05.883000
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127905
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plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave: linen, silk, and gold filé
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