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Cloth with Procession of Figures

Unknown artist, 170 BCE–70 CE (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)

2.81 m × 77 cm

It would not fit through your front door. Stood on end it is 1.7 people tall.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 77 cm
Width: 2.81 m
Medium: cotton and pigment (field); camelid fiber (borders and fringe)
Kind: Textile
Made in: Central Andes, South Coast, Nasca people
Where the measurement comes from: Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
As the museum records it: Overall: 69.8 x 280.7 cm (27 1/2 x 110 1/2 in.)
Why this differs from the record: Recorded as 2.81 m × 70 cm. Hung to match the photograph.
Credit: The Norweb Collection

Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?

How big is it?: 2.81 m × 77 cm. It would not fit through your front door. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 170 BCE–70 CE (radiocarbon date, 95% probability). It is in the public domain, and The Cleveland Museum of Art publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?: Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Cleveland Museum of Art: The Norweb Collection.
How was it made?: Cotton and pigment (field); camelid fiber (borders and fringe), made in Central Andes, South Coast, Nasca people, Central Andes, South Coast, Nasca people.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at The Cleveland Museum of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.

Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.