Fragment with running animal roundels and kufic inscriptions

1530–1950 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)
Overall: 35.3 x 25 cm (13 7/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
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Description

This fragment preserves a wide central band flanked by narrower inscription bands. The narrower bands contain, on a dark blue background a continuous inscription in elaborate Kufic, the ivory-colored lettering oriented at right angles to the warp. On the wider ivory panel there appear ovals enclosing a frieze of running animals within which are hexagons enclosing stars. The ovals alternate vertically with cartouches containing an inscription in simple Kufic, the design appearing in blue, pink, and ivory.
Fragment with running animal roundels and kufic inscriptions

Fragment with running animal roundels and kufic inscriptions

1530–1950 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)

Iran, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055)

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