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Source Description
This silk depicts pairs of horsemen hunting ibexes (mountain goats). The ibexes and two pairs of rabbits originally filled the spaces between rows of large floral roundels. Portions of the roundels are preserved at the top and bottom. Although the design was greatly influenced by silks from Egypt and Syria, the abstract style is typically Sogdian, from an area in Central Asia. This is one of many Sogdian silks that were traded to Europe and eventually preserved in church treasuries.
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148006
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Samite fragment with hunters
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object
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148006
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object
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Samite fragment with hunters
description
This silk depicts pairs of horsemen hunting ibexes (mountain goats). The ibexes and two pairs of rabbits originally filled the spaces between rows of large floral roundels. Portions of the roundels are preserved at the top and bottom. Although the design was greatly influenced by silks from Egypt and Syria, the abstract style is typically Sogdian, from an area in Central Asia. This is one of many Sogdian silks that were traded to Europe and eventually preserved in church treasuries.
date
800s
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79927941
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Textile
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1
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dimensionsRaw
Overall: 22 x 41.8 cm (8 11/16 x 16 7/16 in.); Mounted: 40 x 61 cm (15 3/4 x 24 in.)
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Eastern Iran or Central Asia
accession
1974.98
Source extras
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Silk: compound twill
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Samite fragment with hunters, 800s. Eastern Iran or Central Asia. Silk: compound twill; overall: 22 x 41.8 cm (8 11/16 x 16 7/16 in.); mounted: 40 x 61 cm (15 3/4 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1974.98
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Textiles
citations
citation
Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1974.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 62, no. 3, 1975, pp. 62–102.
page_number
no. 152, p. 102
citation
Müller-Christensen, Sigrid, Mechthild Flury-Lemberg, and Karen Stolleis. <em>Documenta textilia: Festschrift für Sigrid Müller-Christensen</em>. München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1981.
page_number
pp. 105-122, cat. no. 36
citation
Shepherd, Dorothy G. “Zandaniji Revisited.” In <em>Documenta textilia: Festschrift für Sigrid Müller-Christensen</em>. Müller-Christensen, Sigrid, Mechthild Flury-Lemberg, and Karen Stolleis, editors. München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1981.
page_number
pp. 105-122, cat. no. 36
citation
Wardwell, Anne E. “Recently Discovered Textiles Woven in the Western Part of Central Asia Before A.D. 1220.” <em>Textile History</em> 20 (2): 175–84.
page_number
pp. 175-84
citation
Watt, James C. Y., Anne E. Wardwell, and Morris Rossabi. <em>When silk was gold: Central Asian and Chinese textiles</em>. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art in cooperation with the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1997.
page_number
cat. no. 1, pp. 21, 30
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. 63, fig. 2.25; Mentioned: P. 61
creditline
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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2026-05-29 07:36:14.380000
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148006
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Textiles
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Silk: compound twill
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