MAKE A MEME View Large Image Egyptian - Wall Hanging or Curtain Fragment with Orpheus and Eurydice - Walters 83466.jpg This tapestry roundel was likely one of a set that decorated a larger household textile such as a curtain or wall hanging Curtains and wall hangings ...
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Keywords: Egyptian - Wall Hanging or Curtain Fragment with Orpheus and Eurydice - Walters 83466.jpg This tapestry roundel was likely one of a set that decorated a larger household textile such as a curtain or wall hanging Curtains and wall hangings were used in private homes as well as in public and religious buildings to prevent drafts divide spaces and provide privacy The tapestry weave of this piece is ideal for such textiles as it produces a design that can be viewed from either side Though the majority of the population was Christian by this time figures from classical mythology continued to decorate objects of daily use Especially popular were portrayals of pairs of famous lovers Here the attribute of the lyre identifies the male figure as either Orpheus or Apollo indicating that the female must be either Eurydice Orpheus's wife or the nymph Daphne loved by Apollo or perhaps one of the nine Muses frequently associated with Apollo century 5 6 Early Byzantine wool linen cm 48 4 51 9 0 1 accession number 83 466 23696 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Beyond the Pharaohs Egypt and the Copts in the Second to Seventh Centuries A D Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design Providence; The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1989 Byzantine Women and Their World Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge 2002-2003 place of origin Egypt Walters Art Museum license Byzantine and Early Russian art in the Walters Art Museum Byzantine textiles in Egypt Textiles in the Walters Art Museum Orpheus and Eurydice Ancient Egyptian linen
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