Shroud_of_Charlemagne_manufactured_in_Constantinople_814.jpg
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Summary
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English:
The Shroud of Charlemagne, a polychrome crimson-hued silk with a pattern showing a
quadriga
, Byzantine, 8th or 9th century. Paris, musée national du Moyen Âge. This section was cut in 1850 from the shroud in the Aachen Cathedral Treasury, where a section of about the same dimensions remains.
Français :
Quadrige
, Samit façonné, soies polychromes
, IX
e
siècle, Paris, musée national du Moyen Âge
العربية:
كفن شارلمان، أحد أهم المنسوجات البيزنطية الباقية، القرن التاسع.
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| Date | early 9 th century |
| Source | "De Byzance a Istambul" p.129 |
| Author | Anonymous Byzantine artist 9th century |
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