Wall Hanging or Curtain Fragment with Dancer

5th -6th century (Early Byzantine)

20.6 cm 62.3 cm 0.1 cm

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This nude male dancer, wearing a torque and holding two flower staffs, was likely one of a pair or set of such dancers decorating a larger wall hanging or curtain fragment.Curtains and wall hangings were used in private homes, as well as in public and religious buildings, to p...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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