Plate 3
Sasanian Silk Fragment


A detail of a Sasanian silk fragment from Antinoe, in Egypt, now in the Musée Historique des Tissus, Lyon, Inv. 897.III.3. See "Soieries sassanides," Splendeur des Sassanides, op. cit., pp. 113-120; Martiniani-Reber, Lyon, musée historique des tissus, op. cit., cat. #10-11; Bénazeth, Textiles et modes sassanides, op. cit., cat. #6, #60.

 

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