Double sleeve band with guilloche border with crosses and inner repeat pattern of lions and birds

3rd-7th century CE
Early Byzantine Egypt

Object Type	Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection
Dimensions	10 1/2 x 9 7/8 in. (26.67 x 25.08 cm)
Medium	Linen and wool
Credit Line	Bates College Museum of Art, Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, Gift of the Marsden Hartley Estate, 1951.2.75.s
Accession Number	1951.2.75.s

For full citations see page for object accession number 1951.2.75.a. Similar double sleeve bands can be seen on the hooded child’s tunic at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Evans and Ratliffe, eds., p. 169, RADIOCARBON DATED, 430-620 CE; Exceedingly similar in central pattern and exterior border is De Moor, fig. 9, RADIOCARBON DATED 417-642 CE. Also in De Moor, figs. 1 and 2, match guilloche border and exterior arcade edges, RADIOCARBON DATED 340-550 and 380-600, AD. - Rebecca Corrie, August 24, 2020