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Fragment of a Garment   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Iraqi

Caliph al-Muqtadir (Iraqi, reigned 908-932)
Title
Fragment of a Garment
Description
English: This fragment from a robe or other garment is the kind of cloth, called tiraz, woven in official factories and decorated with bands of Arabic inscriptions. Its inscription combines pious invocations to God and verses from the Qur'an and concludes with the phrase "May God bless Muhammad, seal of the prophets, and his entire family." Similar benedictions appear on textiles made for Caliph al-Muqtadir, the ruler of the Abbasid dynasty from 908 to 932.
Date between 900 and 950
Medium silk warp, cotton mulham weft, silk embroidery
Dimensions 13.4 × 47 × 0.8 cm (5.2 × 18.5 × 0.3 in)
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
83.522
Place of creation Iraq
Object history
  • Maurice Nahman, Cairo [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
  • Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928 [mode of acquisition unknown]
  • 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters, 1928
Inscriptions [Translation] May God bless Muhammad, seal of the prophets, and his entire family.
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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