What is this?
This is a piece of cloth, originally part of a tunic. It’s fairly small: only five inches (12.7 cm) tall—around the height of a cellphone—and four inches (10.6 cm) wide. 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. The art is very stylized, almost cartoon-like, and both lions and men are roughly formed, with large eyes.
