带有拱门和宝石十字架的碎片 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	带有拱门和宝石十字架的碎片
品名（英）	Fragment with an Arch and a Gemmed Cross
入馆年号	2002年，2002.239.16
策展部门	中世纪艺术（Medieval Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 400 - 公元 599
创作地区
分类	机织纺织品（Textiles-Woven）
尺寸	整体: 18 7/8 x 25 1/8 英寸 (47.9 x 63.9 厘米) Framed: 23 1/2 x 28 1/2 x 1 1/2 英寸 (59.7 x 72.4 x 3.8 厘米)
介绍（中）	这个色彩鲜艳的悬挂碎片是埃及纺织品幸存下来的罕见例子，可能是基督教遗址家具的一部分。这是Nanette B. Kelekian送给博物馆的两个类似碎片之一。每个都装饰着一个拱门，拱门环绕着精心镶嵌的基督教十字架。已知没有其他此类作品幸存下来。这些作品可能曾经是一个大型悬挂的一部分，悬挂着一系列由柱子支撑的拱门。一个装饰着葡萄串的首都和一根柱子的一部分仍然留在这个碎片的右边缘。拱门下的十字架与希腊字母chi（X）相结合，来自基督图的一个变体，早期教会广泛使用该变体作为基督名字的缩写。纺织品上的图案复制了当代埃及石雕上的图案，这些石雕会被涂成同样鲜艳的颜色。基督教在埃及广泛传播，埃及是修道院主义最初发展的国家。完成后，悬挂可能被用于门口或屏蔽教堂的内部部分。
介绍（英）	This vibrantly colored fragment of a hanging is a rare example of the survival of an Egyptian textile that may have been part of the furnishings of a Christian site. It is one of two similar fragments given to the Museum by Nanette B. Kelekian. Each is decorated with an arch enclosing an elaborately jeweled form of the Christian cross. No other works of the type are known to have survived. The pieces were probably once part of one large hanging embellished with a series of arches supported by columns. One capital, adorned with grape clusters, and a portion of a column remain on the right edge of this fragment. The cross under the arch has been combined with the Greek letter chi (X) to from a variant on the Christogram widely used by the early church as an abbreviation for the name of Christ. The patterns on the textile replicate those found on contemporary Egyptian stone carvings, which would have been painted in similarly brilliant colors. Christianity spread widely in Egypt, the country in which monasticism first developed. When complete, the hanging may have been used in a doorway or to screen off an interior part of a church.