scenes depict goatherds and shepherdesses playing
horns and cymbals, among goats and sheep. Another
important work that has to be mentioned in context
of this pyxis is the Maximian’s Throne, Maximian -
the Archbishop of Ravenna in 546-556. There are
comparable relief s panels with varions scenes from
the life ofjacob’s son Joseph. Tables with scenes from
Joseph’s life are usually attributed to egyptian—cop-
tic workshop like the pyxis with Pastoral scenes men-
tioned above. Another important fact is that, Cierne
Kl’acany pyxis has just an iconographical relation with
the Maximian’s Throne because reliefs with a motifs
from Joseph’s life are close due to Joseph’s father
Jacob. That is why the pyxis from Cierne Kl’acany
could hâve been made in Egyptian—coptic ivory work-
shop.
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horns and cymbals, among goats and sheep. Another
important work that has to be mentioned in context
of this pyxis is the Maximian’s Throne, Maximian -
the Archbishop of Ravenna in 546-556. There are
comparable relief s panels with varions scenes from
the life ofjacob’s son Joseph. Tables with scenes from
Joseph’s life are usually attributed to egyptian—cop-
tic workshop like the pyxis with Pastoral scenes men-
tioned above. Another important fact is that, Cierne
Kl’acany pyxis has just an iconographical relation with
the Maximian’s Throne because reliefs with a motifs
from Joseph’s life are close due to Joseph’s father
Jacob. That is why the pyxis from Cierne Kl’acany
could hâve been made in Egyptian—coptic ivory work-
shop.
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