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{
    "localId": "118469",
    "label": "Silk Decorative Tunic Band with a Hunter",
    "core": "obj",
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}

{
    "id": "118469",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Silk Decorative Tunic Band with a Hunter",
    "description": "This prestigious silk band displays a stylized palmette leaf above a hunter who holds a sword and a shield and pursues a lion and a rabbit. Another fragment with Arabic script indicates Islamic manufacture. Green and ivory silk wefts (horizontal threads) dominate, interlaced by warps (vertical threads) in a diagonal twill weave. A second inner warp does not come to the surface. Such compound structures were woven on large looms with automatic pattern repetition, called drawlooms.",
    "date": "700s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.505",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q80013303"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Textile"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.505/1939.505_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.505/1939.505_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.505/1939.505_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 27.3 x 6.7 cm (10 3/4 x 2 5/8 in.); Mounted: 34.9 x 14.3 cm (13 3/4 x 5 5/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Egypt or Syria, Umayyad period (661–750) or Abbasid period (750–1258)"
    ],
    "accession": "1939.505"
}

{
    "tec": "Silk: complementary weft-faced twill with inner warps (samit)",
    "tombstone": "Silk Decorative Tunic Band with a Hunter, 700s. Egypt or Syria, Umayyad period (661–750) or Abbasid period (750–1258). Silk: complementary weft-faced twill with inner warps (samit); overall: 27.3 x 6.7 cm (10 3/4 x 2 5/8 in.); mounted: 34.9 x 14.3 cm (13 3/4 x 5 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1939.505",
    "collection": "T - Coptic",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Los Angeles County Museum. <em>2000 Years of Silk Weaving: An Exhibition Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Museum in Collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts</em>. New York : E. Weyhe, 1944.",
            "page_number": "no. 11"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Weibel, Adèle Coulin. <em>Two Thousand Years of Textiles; The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East</em>. New York: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books, 1952.",
            "page_number": "no. 53, p. 91"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Katzenberg, Dena S. <em>Blue Traditions; Indigo Dyed Textiles and Related Cobalt Glazed Ceramics from the 17th Through the 19th Century</em>. [Baltimore]: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1973."
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.505",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:07:47.117000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.505/1939.505_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 118469,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Coptic",
    "med": "Silk: complementary weft-faced twill with inner warps (samit)",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.505/1939.505_web.jpg",
    "mediaId": "871a01815303a5bd"
}