Affronted lions. (Updated over a year ago)

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CENTRAL ASIAN Anonymous: Probably made in Bukhara (Sogdiana) in central Asia. The affronted animals motif was used in Sasanian Iran and spread widely throughout central and western Asia as well as the Byzantine world. This fragment was found in a reliquary in Verdun Cathedral in France.

Tags: eurasian , medieval , sogdian , textiles

Added to CSU World Image Archive on October 28, 2007.

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