- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1975.41.31
- People
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Hagop Kevorkian Foundation
- Title
- Hanging Decorated with Crosses and Floral Motifs
- Classification
- Textile Arts
- Work Type
- textile
- Date
- 5th-7th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Africa, Bawit (Egypt)
- Period
- Byzantine period, Early
- Culture
- Egyptian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/288791
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Cotton, indigo and red pigment, plain weave, Z spun
- Technique
- Resist dyed
- Dimensions
- H. 270 x W. 131 cm (106 5/16 x 51 9/16 in.)
framed: 292.7 × 150.5 × 6.7 cm (115 1/4 × 59 1/4 × 2 5/8 in.)
- Provenance
- Hagop Kevorkian, New York (by 1941-1962), by descent; to The Hagop Kevorkian Foundation, New York (1962-1975), gift; to the Fogg Museum.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of The Hagop Kevorkian Foundation in memory of Hagop Kevorkian
- Accession Year
- 1975
- Object Number
- 1975.41.31
- 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. 83, no. 263
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), pp. 74-75, cat. 28
- Exhibition History
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32Q: 3740 Egyptian, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/01/2016 - 12/15/2016
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
- Related Works
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