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    "localId": "96266",
    "label": "Ornamental Square from a Tunic",
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    "id": "96266",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Ornamental Square from a Tunic",
    "description": "Riders dressed in hunting clothes and boots hurl rocks at fleeing lions. The man wears a short tunic and the woman has a fluttering skirt. The border consists of curved acanthus leaves that enclose a chase of alternating lions and hares. This square was sewn onto a tunic rather than woven in. Hunting was a popular artistic theme in pre-Islamic traditions, including Byzantine art, and was then adopted into Islamic art.",
    "date": "400s CE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1980",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60761529"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Textile"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1980/1916.1980_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 21 x 20 cm (8 1/4 x 7 7/8 in.); Mounted: 28.6 x 27.6 cm (11 1/4 x 10 7/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Egypt, Byzantine period"
    ],
    "accession": "1916.198"
}

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    "tec": "Linen, undyed; wool, dyed; tapestry weave with supplementary weft wrapping",
    "tombstone": "Ornamental Square from a Tunic, 400s CE. Egypt, Byzantine period. Linen, undyed; wool, dyed; tapestry weave with supplementary weft wrapping; overall: 21 x 20 cm (8 1/4 x 7 7/8 in.); mounted: 28.6 x 27.6 cm (11 1/4 x 10 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1916.1980",
    "collection": "T - Coptic",
    "formerAccessionNumbers": [
        "248.1916",
        "1667.1916"
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Meyer-Reifstahl, Rudolf A.. <em>First National Silk Convention: [Exhibition] City Hall, Paterson, N.J., October 12th, to 21st., 1915</em>. [Paterson, NJ?]: [Chamber of Commerce?], 1915.",
            "page_number": "no. 3, p. 19"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 65",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook_80839/page/n67"
        },
        {
            "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": "no. 36, pl. III."
        },
        {
            "citation": "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. 45",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n23"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Francovich, Géza de. 1963. \"L' Egitto, la Siria e Costantinopoli: problemi di metodo\". Rivista Dell'Istituto Nazionale D'Archeologia E Storia Dell'Arte / Istituto Nazionale D'Archeologia E Storia Dell'Arte . 83-229.",
            "page_number": "139, fig. 72"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Thompson, Deborah. 1965. “A Fatimid Textile of Coptic Tradition with Arabic Inscription.” <em>Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt</em> 4: 145–50.",
            "page_number": "fig. 8, pl. XXXVIII"
        },
        {
            "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. 30",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n54"
        },
        {
            "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. 30",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n52"
        },
        {
            "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. 36",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n56"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Kajitani, Nobuko. Koputo gire. Kyōto: Kyōto Shoin, 1981.",
            "page_number": "p. 48, pl. 63"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1980",
    "creditline": "Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:11:01.269000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1980/1916.1980_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 96266,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Coptic",
    "med": "Linen, undyed; wool, dyed; tapestry weave with supplementary weft wrapping",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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