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Comparison of Egyptian or Arab Horse Archers on Islamic or Byzantine Textiles

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Textile fragment
7th century, Coptic
Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Washington

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Medallion with "hunting Amazons."
7th-8th c. CE, Syria or Egypt.
Silk. 19.5 x 22 cm.
State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Inv. No. 9472.

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Square, Segmentum from a Tunic
Syria, 8th century
compound twill, silk,
Overall: 22.85 x 21.00 cm (8 15/16 x 8 1/4 inches).
Medium: compound twill, silk
Cleveland Museum of Art 1952.104

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Textile Fragment with Hunting Scene
Date: 8th century
Geography: Egypt or Syria
Culture: Islamic
Medium: Silk; samite
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 51.57

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Place of origin: Akhmim (Possibly, made) Egypt (made) Byzantine (Possibly, made)
Date: ca. AD500-700 (made)
Materials and Techniques: Woven silk
Museum number: 292-1889
Victoria and Albert Museum

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Place of origin: Egypt (made) Byzantine (Possibly, made)
Date: ca. AD500-700 (made)
Materials and Techniques: Woven silk
Museum number: 817-1903
Victoria and Albert Museum

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Place of origin: Byzantine (Possibly, made)
Date: ca. AD500-700 (made)
Materials and Techniques: Woven silk
Museum number: 2185A-1900
Victoria and Albert Museum

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Amazon Horse Archer
Date: 7th–9th century (?)
Geography: Made in Egypt or Syria (?)
Culture: Byzantine
Medium: Weft-faced compound twill (samit) in green, beige, and brownish silk
Dimensions: Overall: 8 3/16 x 8 1/4in. (20.8 x 20.9cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987.442.5.

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Place of origin: Egypt ( made)
Date: ca. AD500-700 (made)
Materials and Techniques: Woven silk
Museum number: 2181B-1900
Victoria and Albert Museum




See also a set of Arab, Syrian or Byzantine Horse Archers on Silk (Barham Gur Shoots a Lion and an Onager with One Arrow), 7th-8th Centuries
Other Byzantine Costume & Soldiers
Other Illustrations of Arab Costume and Soldiers




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