Painted Leather Fragment

7th-9th century

20 cm 20 cm

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This is a fragment of a flat leather object. It may have been a book cover, but since no trace of boards or backing survives, this is problematic. The design was an all-over pattern of contiguous circles, painted in green with yellow outlines upon a deep red ground. A palmette...

Artifact

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23722
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object
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normalized
provenance
provenance
[Cairo]; Dr. Richard Ettinghausen [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1952, by gift.
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CC0
language
language
en
pageCount
pageCount
4
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