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Document Details : Title: Brother George the Scribe Subtitle: An Early Christian Panel Painting from Egypt in Context Author(s): AUTH, Susan Journal: Eastern Christian Art Volume: 2 Date: 2005 Pages: 19-36 DOI: 10.2143/ECA.2.0.2004546 Abstract : Very few panel paintings on wood with Christian subjects have survived from late antique Egypt (see Appendix). One of these paintings, a bust portrait of a monk, is now one of the treasures in the Coptic collection of The Newark Museum, Newark. The portrait is painted in tempera technique on a roughly sawn piece of wood, probably sycamore. In its present state, the panel is 29 cm high, 40.3 cm wide and 1 cm thick2. The panel is split horizontally through the center, and the left and right sides have jagged edges. Neither the top nor the bottom of the board have kept their original contour. |
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