A Man in a Vessel, Once More

• Authors: Innemée Karel C.
• Languages of publication: EN FR DE IT

Abstracts

EN

In one of the paintings in the Central Church of Abdallah-n-Irqi an enigmatic element can be seen: a small figure of a man in a jar. No satisfactory explanation for this detail has been found so far. Although a parallel representation seemed to have been discovered in Banganarti, it remains a unique and problematic representation. On the basis of a renewed investigation of the iconography of martyrs in the fourth century, the author proposes a new interpretation of the man in the vessel.

Keywords

EN

Christian wall-painting; iconography; Abdallah-n-Irqi; Christian Nubia

• Publisher: Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN
• Journal: Études et Travaux (Institut des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences)
• Year: 2019
• Volume: XXXII
• Pages: 111-120

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Innemée Karel C.

• University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam / University of Divinity, Melbourne

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12775/EtudTrav.32.008