File:EB1911 Tapestry - Egypto-Roman - couch or bed covering.jpg
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English: Panel of tapestry-weaving from a couch or bed covering, wrought in purple wools and linen threads. The design recalls the description of the toralia or couch covering alluded to in Petronius Arbiter’s account of Trimalchio’s banquet, “on which were depicted men in ambush with hunting poles and all the apparatus of the chase.” This piece is of Egypto-Roman work about the 2nd or 3rd century, about 12 in. by 10 in. |
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| Date | published 1911 | |||
| Source | “Tapestry,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), v. 26, 1911, fig. 9 (plate I). | |||
| Author | Unknown artist | |||
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