Textile, Medium: wool, linen Technique: tapestry, Length of tapestry band. Pattern consists of vertical arrangement of figures on orange center band at right angles to the warp. Figures of a standing man in a tunic waving an object with left hand raised alternate with an equestrian figure. All figures are greatly foreshortened, 'squashed down' and misshapen. Horses are alternately pink and green. Outer borders of band red with tapestry woven undyed spirals at edges against the red ground., Egypt, 6th–8th century, woven textiles, Textile

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