Tunic with Profile Animals and Checkerboards

410–540 CE (radiocarbon date, 93% probability) Overall: 72.4 x 104.1 cm (28 1/2 x 41 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/2005.16

The imagery in the central field of this unique tunic—animals with long tails and three-toed feet—seems to have been created by painting a slurry-like material on the pale areas to protect them when the fabric was immersed in a bath that turned other areas light brown. Then th...

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