About this work
The rich man fallen after his eye has been pierced by arrows from a group of enemies
Original catalogue wording
2. The rich man fallen after his eye has been pierced by arrows from a group of enemies | 1. The rich man from Qʷalāsis travelling with his companions on a ship | 3. The rich man standing next to a small statue of himself in front of the icon of the Virgin and Child
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 012. The rich man fallen after his eye has been pierced by arrows from a group of enemiesPosition recorded by PEMM: top
How the rich Greek man was shot with arrows; The Qwəz men who fought the rich man and one shot him with an arrow
- 021. The rich man from Qʷalāsis travelling with his companions on a shipPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-left
How the rich Greek man went by boat to the land of Tərkwə in order to fight them
- 033. The rich man standing next to a small statue of himself in front of the icon of the Virgin and ChildPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-right
How the arrows fell from the eye of the statue and from the eye of the rich man. In that moment he was healed; Our Lady Mary
- Source date
- 17th
- Date evidence
- The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from JRB and SGD”.
- Holding institution
- British Library
- Shelfmark
- 639
- Folio
- 93v
- Recorded provenance
- South: Looted from Madḫāne ʿĀlam Church at መቅደላ Mäqdäla Magdala, Tewodros II collected manuscripts from all the country, so provenance prior to this unknown
- Place evidence
- Place recorded or purchased, as stated by the source. It is not treated as the place of production.
- Catalogue source
- Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project
- Source record
- paintings.csv, Painting ID 1492 (3 episode rows)