Keywords: Roundel - Google Art Project.jpg Medallion with polychrome figures on a red ground In the center field a haloed rider on a prancing horse carries a staff or scepter topped with a trefoil and holds a ring A lion below looks back over his shoulder Two additional figures one at each side wear spotted green clothing The rider is in pink with a flowing blue cape Inner border of polychrome connected flower heads on a natural ground; outer border of polychrome step pattern on dark blue ground The image is said to represent the emperor with two Persian prisoners a reference to the victory of Heraclius 617 - 641 over the Persians in 627 6938587 Unknown /collection/cooper-hewitt-national-design-museum/artwork/roundel-unknown/5492263/ 11925 author /collection/cooper-hewitt-national-design-museum/ Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum 3644669 http //www cooperhewitt org/ /collection/cooper-hewitt-national-design-museum/artwork/roundel-unknown/5492263/ 500 6th �7th century Medium wool linenTechnique slit tapestry with supplementary weft wrapping Before 1902 Stanislaus Baron collection1901 purchased by John Pierpont Morgan given to Hewitt sisters1902 Cooper Union Museum 235 5492263 False 700 1902-1-71 http //collection cooperhewitt org/view/objects/asitem/id/11925 Gift of John Pierpont Morgan Roundel 500 710 w215 x h235 cm 6th �7th century False 1 09635974304069 Object roundel-unknown Roundel r 215 Lymes Russel More than Meets the Eye Washington D C Smithsonian Institution Press 1981 p 25 R Berliner Horsemen in Tapestry Roundels found in Egypt Textile Museum Journal V 1 2 Dec 1966The Horizon History of Christianity 1964 p 122 Apollo Magazine October 1963 p 292 Cooper Union Museum Illustrated Survey of the Collections New York 1957 F Kendrick Catalogue of textiles from Burying Grounds of Egypt Vol 3 London 1922 p 24 plate 13R M Riefstahl Early textiles in the Cooper Union Collection in 'Art in America' Vol 3 1915 p 308 fig 2 H x W 23 5 x 21 5 cm 9 1/4 x 8 7/16 in Paris France Petit Palais L'Art Copte June 17 through September 15 1964 no 273 p 221 Vienna Austria Akademie der Bildenden Kunst Fruhchristliche und Koptische Kunst March 11 through May 3 1964 no 631 p 204 Zurich Switzerland Kunsthaus Koptische Kunst Christentum am Nil November 15 1963 through January 15 1964 no 302 ill p 119 Essen Germany Villa Hugel Koptische Kunst Christentum am Nil May 3 through August 15 1963 no 351 ill New York NY Queens College The World as a Symbol April-May 1959New York NY Cooper Union Museum Ends and beginnings May-August 1957Baltimore MD Early Christian and Byzantine Art 1947 no 813 New York NY Brooklyn Museum Der Nersersian Sirarpie 1941Worcester Museum The Dark Ages 1937 Medium wool linenTechnique slit tapestry with supplementary weft wrapping Before 1902 Stanislaus Baron collection1901 purchased by John Pierpont Morgan given to Hewitt sisters1902 Cooper Union Museum special url_id 9gGdynhm-XKHTw PD-old-100 Google Art Project works by unknown artist Coptic Textiles in the Cooper �Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum Google Art Project works in Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum 6th-century textiles Coptic textiles |