At the Sacristy of St Vitus Cathedral in Prague there is a Syrian or Byzantine Horse Archer, c.600AD on a textile
There is a similar piece of silk at the Shrine of St. Kunibert, Erzbischöfliches Museum, Cologne, which David Nicolle says is 8th century AD Syrian. The pattern of the two pieces is not identical, but they are so similar that the 2 fragments in Prague and the piece in Cologne could have been cut from the same cloth.
I don’t know if it is part of this but the Cologne museum say that their Coptic textile collection was bought in the 19th & 20th centuries via dealers who cut up textiles then sold the pieces with patterns. So these pieces may have been separated fairly recently. Does anyone have anymore information or pictures of these?
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