Bulletin du Musée National de Varsovie (6.1965)

the great festival of the Ascension is joined61. The sequence of the representations of this row
as well as that of the centra] one depends on the succesion of the lections in the Iiturgy62.

The orthodox character of the grouping of the themes, — the problem exceeding the scope
of the prescnt article — seems to confirm the suggestion of Professor Trypanis as to the pos-
sibility of the interpretation of the "€TTICTATHN" °f t^e inscription as an „abbot". It is very
probable that the Warsaw diptych, Asiatic as it is in its style and faithful to Eastern iconogra-
phical traditions, was created in provincial monastic milieu in the XI-XII centuries.

40. The piece of fabric found in the Warsaw diptych. 8 : 1

61. G. Millet, op. cit., L. I, ch. III, p. 33.

62: The conventional iconography of the reverses of the Warsaw diptych finds its expIanation in A. Froiow's article
"1C XC

- -in Byzantinoslauica, XVII, 1956 p. 98 — 113 and in the finał part of the introduction to the Corpua of Gold-

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schmidt nad We tzmann.

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