- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1939.112.1
- Title
- Fragments of a Hanging: St. Theodore and Inscription
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Textile Fragment: Head of Saint Theodore
- Classification
- Textile Arts
- Work Type
- textile
- Date
- 6th-7th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Africa, Egypt (Ancient)
- Period
- Byzantine period
- Culture
- Coptic
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/213118
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Wool and linen
- Technique
- Woven
- Dimensions
- 37 × 48 cm (14 9/16 × 18 7/8 in.)
framed: 44.8 × 57.5 × 3.2 cm (17 5/8 × 22 5/8 × 1 1/4 in.)
- Provenance
- [Paul Mallon, Paris, (by 1926)], sold; to Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., New York (1926-1939), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1939.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller
- Accession Year
- 1939
- Object Number
- 1939.112.1
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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"Pagan and Christian Egypt: Egyptian Art from the First to the Tenth Century A.D." (1941), Brooklyn Museum, p. 78, no. 243, ill.
Walters Art Gallery, Early Christian and Byzantine Art, exh. cat., The Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, MD, 1947), cat. no. 783, pl. CIX
Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), p. 117, no. 132, ill.
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., Harvard Art Museum/Handbook (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2008)
Gudrun Buehl, Sumru Belger Krody, and Elizabeth Dospěl Williams, Woven Interiors: Furnishing Early Medieval Egypt, exh. cat., The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum (Washington, D.C., 2019), p. 72, cat. 26
- Exhibition History
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Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 04/24/1947 - 07/01/1947
2,000 Years of Tapestry Weaving, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 02/27/1952 - 03/25/1952
Beyond the Pharaohs: Egypt and the Copts in the 2nd to 7th Centuries A.D., Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 02/10/1989 - 04/16/1989; Walters Art Gallery, 05/17/1989 - 07/15/1989
32Q: 3740 Egyptian, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 05/12/2015
Woven Interiors: Early Medieval Textiles of the Eastern Mediterranean, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, Washington, 08/31/2019 - 01/05/2020
- Subjects and Contexts
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Google Art Project
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