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Textile Square with the Head of Spring in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2007

Textile Square with the Head of Spring  in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2007
Square with the Head of Spring
Multicolored wools, tapestry weave
Byzantine, said to be from Panopolis (now Akhmim, Egypt)
Woven 300-500 AD

Accession # 90.5.848

Personifications of the seasons were thought to represent prosperity. The pink blossoms suggest that this figure is Spring.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.
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