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Figured woven silk textile fragment with birds
Unknown maker
- Medium
- Silk, weft-faced compound twill (Samit) weave
- Dimensions
- Overall: 3 3/4 x 22 3/4in. (9.5 x 57.8cm)
- Culture
- Byzantine
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Classification
- Textiles-Woven
- Dated
- 5th–6th century
- Pixels
- 3640 × 755
- SHA-256
- ed88bb24b54d91db…
- Record
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License, verbatimCC0
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Figured woven silk textile fragment with birds. 5th–6th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.