DOI Artikel:
Mierzejewska, Bożena: Nubian Imagines Potestatis in the Collections of the National Museum in Warsaw
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18949#0026
one to assume that in Faras a custom of placing royal images in the sanctuary
was introduced, without paying attention to the original composition on the
apse’s walls which, despite some renovation attempts, was probably already
destroyed to a large extent. These later monarchs’ portraits represent a slightly
different type but their ideological import remains the same.
Translated by Paweł Lipszyc
the wali by the passage from the nave to narthex, inv. no. 234012, both in the Faras Gallery,
a magnificent portrait of Georgios II in the chapel opposite the apse of the church in Sonqi
Tino, showing the monarch in robes, with regalia, standing before Christ who places his hands
on king’s arms, cf. S. Donadoni, “Les fouilles a 1’eglise de Sonqi Tino”, in Kunst und Geschichte
Nubiens in christlicher Zeit, ed. by E. Dinkler, Recklinghausen 1970, pp. 209-216, and finally
a monumental image of a king receiving a crown and a sceptre from the hands of three smali
figures of Christ visible above his head, discovered by a Polish archeological mission in Old
Dongola (I am indebted to Dr. Stefan Jakobielski for the photographs of this painting).
was introduced, without paying attention to the original composition on the
apse’s walls which, despite some renovation attempts, was probably already
destroyed to a large extent. These later monarchs’ portraits represent a slightly
different type but their ideological import remains the same.
Translated by Paweł Lipszyc
the wali by the passage from the nave to narthex, inv. no. 234012, both in the Faras Gallery,
a magnificent portrait of Georgios II in the chapel opposite the apse of the church in Sonqi
Tino, showing the monarch in robes, with regalia, standing before Christ who places his hands
on king’s arms, cf. S. Donadoni, “Les fouilles a 1’eglise de Sonqi Tino”, in Kunst und Geschichte
Nubiens in christlicher Zeit, ed. by E. Dinkler, Recklinghausen 1970, pp. 209-216, and finally
a monumental image of a king receiving a crown and a sceptre from the hands of three smali
figures of Christ visible above his head, discovered by a Polish archeological mission in Old
Dongola (I am indebted to Dr. Stefan Jakobielski for the photographs of this painting).