The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 13, 2025
Fragment, Sleeve Ornament from a Tunic
500s - early 600s
Overall: 21.6 x 20.6 cm (8 1/2 x 8 1/8 in.); Mounted: 29.8 x 28.6 cm (11 3/4 x 11 1/4 in.)
Gift of George D. Pratt 1926.155.a
Location: Not on view
Description
This fragment originally decorated a tunic, the prevalent garment worn by adults and children around the Byzantine Mediterranean. Six square panels feature stylized human figures in various states of movement. With baskets and vessels in hand, they sit, stand, and leap within the scenes. Separating the square panels in the middle, two decorative bands depict alternating stylized figural busts, birds, baskets, and vegetal motifs. Tunic decoration such as this provided wearers a way to express their social status through clothes.- ?-1926George Dupont Pratt [1869-1935], New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art1926The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 13, 2023-November 10, 2024).Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 12, 2016-May 22, 2017).
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