MAKE A MEME View Large Image Byzantine - Garment Decoration ("Segmentum") with Man Killing Panther - Walters 83685.jpg Hunt and hunting motifs constitute a group of 5th-century classical subjects which frequently appeared in early Byzantine textiles While the content ...
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Keywords: Byzantine - Garment Decoration ("Segmentum") with Man Killing Panther - Walters 83685.jpg Hunt and hunting motifs constitute a group of 5th-century classical subjects which frequently appeared in early Byzantine textiles While the content of the scenes was frequently symbolic in wall hangings and other pieces of interior decoration hunt scenes as they appeared on clothing were generally intended as purely decorative Framing the central subject of this fragment is a border composed of wine jugs and grape vines a probable reference to Dionysus the god of regeneration and rebirth century 4 5 Early Byzantine wool linen cm 9 4 9 accession number 83 685 6468 Walters Art Museum 1951 by purchase Museum purchase 1951 Recent Accessions The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1981 place of origin Egypt Walters Art Museum license Byzantine and Early Russian art in the Walters Art Museum Textiles in the Walters Art Museum Byzantine textiles in Egypt Vineyard in ancient Egypt
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