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Black Fighters on a Late Antique Textile (HUAM 1917.113)

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By Sean Gilsdorf


This is a piece of cloth, originally part of a tunic. The fragment depicts a battle between man and beast, with two hunters fighting lions. The lions leap, mouths agape, toward the hunters, who face them with swords at the ready. This small scene is framed by a black oval, with curling vines decorating the corners. 

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