Fabric fragment
Object PlaceNegev, Israel
Medium/TechniqueRepousse, a sheet of silver (for the coins) is laid on a bed of pitch, and hammered with variousley shaped punches, or it is hammered onto a shaped mould. In either case the design appears in relief on the reverse side of the work (Weir, 66).
DimensionsLength: 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Dawn Nordblom in memory of Rodger P. Nordblom
Accession number2014.455
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Not on viewClassificationsTextiles
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ProvenanceBetween 1980 and 1985, acquired by Dawn Nordblom, Palm Beach, CA from Bedouin people in Saudi Arabia; 2014, gift of Nordblom to the MFA. (Accession date: February 26, 2014)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1824–28
Mid 7th–8th century A.D.
early 17th century
late 19th century
inscribed with date equivalent to A.D. 1137
late 18th or 19th century