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Healing Scroll (Met 2011.377)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

19th centuryProtective scrollsThe Met Collection

What this record describes

A 19th-century Ethiopian healing scroll of parchment and pigments, 190.5 cm long, attributed to the Amhara or Tigrinya peoples. The Met catalogues protective imagery including horses, angels, and saints. Anonymous gift, 2011 (2011.377).

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Source date
19th century
Date evidence
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Holding institution
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Recorded provenance
Amhara or Tigrinya peoples
Place evidence
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Catalogue source
The Met Collection
Source record
2011.377