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    "localId": "142643",
    "label": "Celestial banquet hanging, from the tomb of Bishop Gurb",
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}

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    "id": "142643",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Celestial banquet hanging, from the tomb of Bishop Gurb",
    "description": "This rare silk fragment is from a luxurious hanging of brightly colored silk and shiny gold thread that displayed rows of figural roundels on a plain ground. The two turbaned men holding flasks flanking a palmette tree and the turbaned rider with a flying scarf are derived from the ancient Near Eastern imperial themes of the banquet and the hunt. The Arabic inscription framing each roundel proclaims, <em>There is no god but Allah</em>. <br><br>This piece along with several others were reportedly found in the tomb of Bishop Gurb (died 1284) in the Cathedral of Barcelona in about 1890.",
    "date": "1200–1284",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.368",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q80042533"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Textile"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.368/1966.368_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.368/1966.368_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.368/1966.368_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 21.2 x 58.4 cm (8 3/8 x 23 in.); Mounted: 30.2 x 67 cm (11 7/8 x 26 3/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Spain, probably Almeria"
    ],
    "accession": "1966.368"
}

{
    "tec": "Silk and gold thread: plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave",
    "tombstone": "Celestial banquet hanging, from the tomb of Bishop Gurb, 1200–1284. Spain, probably Almeria. Silk and gold thread: plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave; overall: 21.2 x 58.4 cm (8 3/8 x 23 in.); mounted: 30.2 x 67 cm (11 7/8 x 26 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1966.368",
    "collection": "T - Islamic",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "Arabic inscription bordering the roundels translates: \"There is no god but God.\""
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Shepherd, Dorothy G. “A Treasure from a Thirteenth-Century Spanish Tomb.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 65, no. 4 (April 1978): 111–134.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 111–134",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25159577"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Brett, Michael, and Werner Forman. <em>The Moors: Islam in the West</em>. London: Orbis Pub, 1980.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 15"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Martin Nagy, Rebecca. <em>Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 35–37, 58, cat no. 12; fig. 23, 25."
        },
        {
            "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.189, fig. 5.22; Mentioned: P. 189, 198"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Akin, Esra. <em>Muthanna / History, Theory, and Aesthetics</em>. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2020.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 134, fig. 5.5"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.368",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:19:12.155000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.368/1966.368_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 142643,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Islamic",
    "med": "Silk and gold thread: plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.368/1966.368_web.jpg",
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