Tapestry border with animals

Classification

clothing

Culture

Coptic (culture)

Dimensions

5 x 21 cm

Date

second half of the 4th century A.D.

Period

Late Antique Period (4th–7th centuries A.D.); Late Antique Period (mid-3rd–mid-5th centuries); 4th century A.D.

Material

linen ; wool

Iconography

dog ; hare

Production place

Egypt

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Budapest, Hungarian National Museum

Inventory

51.212

Hyp-552

Condition

Undamaged fragment.

References

Török 1993 II, 25, T 26.; Török 2005b, 92–93, no. 39.; Török 2005a, 74–75, 39. sz.

Unbleached linen warp, purple wool weft.

Between two running dogs, there is a fleeing hare. Altough the figures are divided from each other by heavy borders, the hare and the dogs constitute a unified composition. Similar pictorial units may well have followed each other along the border, indicating the fine quality of the iconographic models used in the workshop where the tapestry was produced.

This record is subject to revision due to ongoing research.