Now laid on linen cloth; the tapestry weave with warp of undyed linen and weft of natural, brown, dark red, light blue, yellow, buff and pink silk woven into a plain weave of natural linen. 17 1/2 x 20 in. Literature: E.D. Macquire, Weavings from Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Egypt, The Rich Life and the Dance, University of Illinois, 1999, pg. 85, no. A41. Exhibited: Jerusalem, L.A. Mayer Memorial Institute for Islamic Art, Textiles from Egypt 4th-13th Centuries C.E., 1980; Urbana-Champaign, Krannert Art Museum, Weavings from Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Egypt, The Rich Life and the Dance, 1999.,