Icon
date: label: Date
content: After 1700
name: label: Maker
content: Ethiopian Orthodox
notes: label: Label Text
content: This large icon, meant to be seen by many people, was carried in church processions on holy days. The subject of Christ crowned with thorns and flanked by tormentors was modeled after Ethiopia's famous imperial icon that was carried into battle by the emperor's army.
label: Description
content: Diptych with a half figure of Christ crowned with thorns, flanked by two small men in Turkish costume striking his head, Descent from the Cross with Mary twice, Joseph of Arimithea, Nicodemus, Salome and Elizabeth. The diptych icon has iron hinges, a hand hammered clasp and a leather bound back.
label: Provenance
content: Joseph and Patricia Brumit, Sun City West, 1968 to 2004
label: Exhibition History
content: BIG/small, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., January 17-July 23, 2006
label: Content Statement
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label: Image Requests
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place: label: Geography
content: Ethiopia
topic: label: Topic
content: Writing
label: Topic
content: cross
label: Topic
content: ladder
label: Topic
content: male
label: Topic
content: female
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content: National Museum of African Art Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Joseph and Patricia Brumit
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2004-7-3
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Wood, paint, leather, iron
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 67 x 81 x 3.4 cm (26 3/8 x 31 7/8 x 1 5/16 in.)