Textile Fragment with Wave Border and Honeycomb Pattern

Textile Fragment with Wave Border and Honeycomb Pattern

This textile fragment features a circular image with an asymmetrical motif of connected circles, ovals, and lines. Extensive damage to the center and lower half of the fragment make identifying this motif difficult, as the possibility of missing details complicates the already highly stylized image. The circular image is surrounded by four similar shapes, each consisting of a circle with one curved line intersecting it on one side and another line which curves at one end paralleling the other side. Bordering these shapes and the circular image is a wave pattern. On the shorted sides, this pattern is highly stylized but relatively naturalistic. On the longer sides, this pattern is more geometric. Parallel to these longer, geometric waves, sections where the fragment was stitched together can be seen.

Unknown

Late Antique / Byzantine / Early Islamic, 2-9 century CE

Hallie Ford Museum of Art, gift of the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation

6" X 6.5"