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Fragment of a Garment
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.
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Maurice Nahman, Cairo [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Iraq (Place of Origin)
Measurements
5 1/4 x 18 1/2 x 5/16 in. (13.4 x 47 x 0.8 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1928
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
83.522