Floor or Cushion Cover Fragment with Running Hares

4th-5th century (Early Byzantine)

44.4 cm 31.7 cm

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Rows of running hares (alternately upside down) and trees (lying on their sides) suggest that this textile was to be viewed from different directions, perhaps as a covering for a floor or cushion.The twill weave, a relatively new technique at the time, has produced a heavy, du...

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Maurice Nahman, Cairo [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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