DOI Artikel:
Łaptaś, Magdalena: A sphere, an orb or a disc?: the object held by the archangels in the Faras Cathedral wall paintings
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18946#0039
8. The Archangel
Michael, painting
from the west wall
of the tomb of Bishop
Johannes (Phot, in situ),
the National Museum
in Khartoum,
(neg. the archives
of the Mediterranean
Archaeological
Institute of the
Polish Academy
of Sciences)
disc held by the Archangel Michael in the paracclesion of the Kariye Djami in
Constantinople from the 14th century. Sirarpie der Nersessian characterises the
attribute in the following way: “The discus is the ‘seal’ of Christ, held by angels
as ‘ministers’ of God”.24
24 Cf. S. der Nersessian, op. cit., p. 324.
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Michael, painting
from the west wall
of the tomb of Bishop
Johannes (Phot, in situ),
the National Museum
in Khartoum,
(neg. the archives
of the Mediterranean
Archaeological
Institute of the
Polish Academy
of Sciences)
disc held by the Archangel Michael in the paracclesion of the Kariye Djami in
Constantinople from the 14th century. Sirarpie der Nersessian characterises the
attribute in the following way: “The discus is the ‘seal’ of Christ, held by angels
as ‘ministers’ of God”.24
24 Cf. S. der Nersessian, op. cit., p. 324.
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