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#0043
with an altar beneath it, and the holy gospel on the altar. Above it is the Holy
Spirit and nearby is the Eternal Father seated on a throne and raising his sacred
hands in blessing; he says on a scroll: ‘I brought thee forth from the womb
before the morning.’ On the right of the altar Christ is standing in bishop’s robes,
blessing, and in front of him are the other choirs of angels, in priests’ robes,
and forming a circle round to the left hand side of the altar. Christ appears
again standing at the left hand side of it, taking a plate from the head of an
10. An Archangel,
a no-longer
existing painting from
the east
wall of Faras
Cathedral's narthex,
painted over an earlier
painting that also
portrayed an
archangel, (Phot.
in situ; neg. the
archives of the
Mediterranean
Archaeological
Institute of the
Polish Academy
of Sciences)
41
Spirit and nearby is the Eternal Father seated on a throne and raising his sacred
hands in blessing; he says on a scroll: ‘I brought thee forth from the womb
before the morning.’ On the right of the altar Christ is standing in bishop’s robes,
blessing, and in front of him are the other choirs of angels, in priests’ robes,
and forming a circle round to the left hand side of the altar. Christ appears
again standing at the left hand side of it, taking a plate from the head of an
10. An Archangel,
a no-longer
existing painting from
the east
wall of Faras
Cathedral's narthex,
painted over an earlier
painting that also
portrayed an
archangel, (Phot.
in situ; neg. the
archives of the
Mediterranean
Archaeological
Institute of the
Polish Academy
of Sciences)
41