The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of March 29, 2024
Fragment of a Tunic
400s–600s CE
Overall: 94 x 39.4 cm (37 x 15 1/2 in.); Mounted: 99.7 x 48.3 cm (39 1/4 x 19 in.)
Gift of George D. Pratt 1926.143
Location: 106A Migration Period & Coptic
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The dark blue dye is made from indigo.Description
Tunics with decoration on the front and back were worn by both men and women. These long bands, called clavi, feature pairs of stylized haloed figures gesturing, possibly in dance, and wearing short skirts with scarves across their chests. They alternate with pairs of foxes (?) and fish. The ancient repair in the lower center of this woolen winter tunic reveals that decorated cloth was expensive, and thus often mended and reused.- -1926Mr. George D. Pratt (1869–1935), New York, NY, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art1926-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- G. U. “Coptic Textiles.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 13, no. 9 (1926). p. 196 www.jstor.org
- Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 23, 2017-May 14, 2018).Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 20, 2013-March 17, 2014).Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27, 2003-October 25, 2004).
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