A Thousand Words: Door Panel from Cairo’s Hanging Church
This carved cedarwood panel depicting the Baptism and Annunciation of Jesus is one of a set of ten impressive iconographic panels from a door at the Holy Virgin Mary’s Coptic Orthodox Church, also known as the Hanging Church, in Cairo, Egypt. Using a motif frequently employed in medieval Eastern Ort...
| Format: | Electronic Article |
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| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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| In: |
The Biblical archaeology review
Year: 2024, Volume: 50, Issue: 3, Pages: 66 |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | This carved cedarwood panel depicting the Baptism and Annunciation of Jesus is one of a set of ten impressive iconographic panels from a door at the Holy Virgin Mary’s Coptic Orthodox Church, also known as the Hanging Church, in Cairo, Egypt. Using a motif frequently employed in medieval Eastern Orthodox art, the top scene shows […] |
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| ISSN: | 0098-9444 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Biblical archaeology review
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