panel
- Museum number
- 1878,1203.6
- Description
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Carved panel; cedarwood; from a door; oblong; the Pentecost; the Twelve Apostles are seated round a table which terminates in front in a rounded arch; in the background are buildings, and at the top is a dove, descending from heaven.
- Production date
- 1300 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 310 millimetres
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Width: 131 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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On the el-Muʿallaqah church and it furnishing: E. Maglaque, "Devotional and Artistic Responses to Contested Space in Old Cairo: The Case of Al-Mu’allakah", in: M. Gharipour, ed. Sacred Precincts: Non-Muslim Sites in Islamic Societies (Leiden 2014) 143-57; M. Immerzeel, The Narrow Way to Heaven: Identity and Identities in the Art of Middle Eastern Christianity (Louvain 2017) 69-76.
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Found with 1878,1203.1-10
- Location
- On display (G42/dc21)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2015, Oct 29 – 2016, Feb 7. British Museum, Room 35. Egypt: Faith after the Pharoahs
2015 1 April - 15 Sept. Berlin, Bode Museum, 'EIN GOTT - Abrahams Erben am Nil'
2008-2009 25 Oct-22 Mar, London, Royal Academy of Arts, Byzantium 330-1453 AD
2004 15 Mar-5 Jul, USA, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Byzantium; Faith and Power
2000 30 Sep-2001 7 Jan, France, La Clape, Musée de l’Ephebe, L’art copte en Egypte
2000 15 May-3 Sep, France, Paris, Institut du Monde Arabe, Coptic Art
- Acquisition date
- 1878
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1878,1203.6