Curtain Fragment with Panthers, 500s. Creator: Unknown
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Curtain Fragment with Panthers, 500s. Creator: Unknown
Curtain Fragment with Panthers, 500s. Luxurious tapestry-woven curtains decorated with colourful figures and flora were hung in religious, palatial, and theatrical settings. Often, as here, red forms the background of the main field framed by a blue border. Lively cheetahs or panthers wearing collars appear among alternating stylized rosettes and floral roundels, which frame birds on the red ground. In the border, pairs of masks and birds alternate. Cheetahs were favored for hunting, suggested here by the collars and, in one case, a harness. Panthers, on the other hand, were associated with Dionysus, Greek god of wine, who was admired by Egyptians of all religions through the 6th century AD
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