Claudian°
CLAUDIAN°
CLAUDIAN ° (Claudius Claudianus ; fourth century c.e.), Latin poet. He mentions the imaginative pictures of India painted upon Jewish veils in Eutropium, 1:350ff. If the text is correct, it contains a unique reference to ornamented Jewish fabrics and possibly reflects India's influence on Jewish art.
[Jacob Petroff]
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