Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Mantle
of Roger II |
"the
porphyry lion of the sarcophagus . . . appears in its purely
Islamic form on the magnificent royal mantel of Roger II woven in the years
1133-34 according to the Cufic inscription on its hem"
Josef Deér,
The Dynastic Porphyry Tombs of the Norman Period in Sicily.
Translated by G. A. Gillhoff (Dumbarton Oaks Studies, 5. Cambridge,
Massachusetts: 1959) 52. |