Harvard Art Museums > 1931.43: Sleeve Band: Personification Textile Arts Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Sleeve Band: Personification , 1931.43,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/212857. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1931.43 Title Sleeve Band: Personification Classification Textile Arts Work Type textile Date 6th-9th century Places Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Africa, Egypt (Ancient) Period Byzantine period, Early Culture Byzantine Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/212857 Location Location Level 3, Room 3620, University Study Gallery View this object's location on our interactive map Physical Descriptions Medium Wool and linen, tapestry weave Technique Woven, tapestry weave Dimensions 32.5 x 17.4 cm (12 13/16 x 6 7/8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: ΓΕΩΡΓΕ Provenance Recorded Ownership History Collection Besselièvre, Paris (by 1911), sold; Charles Bain Hoyt (by 1931), gift; to the Fogg Museum. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Charles Bain Hoyt Accession Year 1931 Object Number 1931.43 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description In the central roundel is a bust of a female personfication dressed in a green robe dotted with white. She holds a budding bough in each hand. Above her is an inscription in Greek letters reading ΓΕΩΡΓΕ (Georgi). The four smaller roundels contain nereids riding sea creatures. Horizontal bands containing red flowers alternate with blue bands containing fish. Commentary The shape of this fragment suggests that it once was the sleeve band of a tunic. Textiles that once have also belonged to the same tunic can be found in the Abegg-Stiftung Collection in Riggisberg (Inv. Nr. 1085) and the Musee du Perigord (Inv. Nr. 3 178-1). The piece in the Abegg is a sleeve band with the same dimensions as our band and an identical similar composition.1 The personification on that band is labeled ΣΟΦIΑ (Wisdom). The Musee du Perigord contains part of a shoulder patch and clavi bands with similar design elements.2 1. Schrenk, Sabine. Textilien des Mittelmeerraumes aus spatantiker bis fruhislamischer Zeit. Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung, 2004. 2. L'Egypte en Périgord: Dans les pas de Jean Clédat. Catalogue raisonné de l'exposition, Musée du Périgord, 16 mai - 15 septembre 1991. Paris: Editions Peeters, 1991. Publication History Annemarie Stauffer, Spätantike und koptische Wirkereien: Untersuchungen zur ikonographischen Tradition in spätantiken und frühmittelalterlichen Textilwerkstätten, exh. cat., Verlag Peter Lang (Bern, Switzerland, 1992), 143-35, 244 Ioli Kalavrezou, Byzantine Women and Their World, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2003), p. 272/fig. 162 Exhibition History Byzantine Women and Their World, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/25/2002 - 04/28/2003 32Q: 3740 Egyptian, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/28/2017 - 06/20/2018 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/31/2024 - 01/05/2025 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
