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Square with a Bucolic Landscape in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2022
Title: Square with Bucolic Landscape
Date: 4th–6th century
Geography: Attributed to Egypt
Medium: Linen, wool; plain weave, tapestry weave
Dimensions: Max. H. 6 1/2 in. (16.7 cm)
Max. W. 7 1/4 in. (18.5 cm)
Classification: Textiles
Credit Line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890
Accession Number: 90.5.824
At the center of this finely woven square, a dancing shepherd wearing an animal-skin exomis (a short tunic fastened at the shoulder worn for exercise, riding, or labor) holds in the air what may be a libation vessel used for the ritual pouring of a liquid in honor of gods, heroes, or the dead. He is surrounded by a flock of leaping, horned animals. Two naked, dancing women, possibly nymphs, occupy opposite corners; the remaining corners are filled with plants, perhaps lotus. Pastoral scenes inhabited by figures associated with classical mythology were common on late antique textiles. Along with maenads and satyrs, shepherds and nymphs often made up Dionysos’s entourage. Almost identical imagery is found on the lower part of a tunic in the collections of the Musée départmental des Antiquités in Rouen, France; this square may have been part of that tunic or one very similar to it.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/444303
Date: 4th–6th century
Geography: Attributed to Egypt
Medium: Linen, wool; plain weave, tapestry weave
Dimensions: Max. H. 6 1/2 in. (16.7 cm)
Max. W. 7 1/4 in. (18.5 cm)
Classification: Textiles
Credit Line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890
Accession Number: 90.5.824
At the center of this finely woven square, a dancing shepherd wearing an animal-skin exomis (a short tunic fastened at the shoulder worn for exercise, riding, or labor) holds in the air what may be a libation vessel used for the ritual pouring of a liquid in honor of gods, heroes, or the dead. He is surrounded by a flock of leaping, horned animals. Two naked, dancing women, possibly nymphs, occupy opposite corners; the remaining corners are filled with plants, perhaps lotus. Pastoral scenes inhabited by figures associated with classical mythology were common on late antique textiles. Along with maenads and satyrs, shepherds and nymphs often made up Dionysos’s entourage. Almost identical imagery is found on the lower part of a tunic in the collections of the Musée départmental des Antiquités in Rouen, France; this square may have been part of that tunic or one very similar to it.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/444303
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