EditorialEmbroidered Sash ("Uckur"), 19th century. Turkey or Greece, Sporades Islands, Skyros ?, 19th century. Embroidery: silk thread and brass strip hooked through and pressed flat on linen tabby ground; average: 158.8 x 20.4 cm (62 1/2 x 8 1/16 in.).
EditorialFragment of Pillow Cover or Panel of Bedspread, 1800s. Greece, Sporades Islands, Skyros, 19th century. Embroidery: silk on linen tabby ground; overall: 47 x 40.4 cm (18 1/2 x 15 7/8 in.).
EditorialAchilles discovered by Ulysses among the daughters of Lykomedes at Skyros, where his mother Thetis hid him to prevent him from joining the Greek heroes before Troy. From Pompeii. Inv.116085.