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
- 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 same moment. Ane the rich man was healed from all his injuries; The waxen statue of the rich Greek man; The rich Greek man
- Source date
- 1721-1730
- Date evidence
- The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from king's name”.
- Holding institution
- Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
- Shelfmark
- 7606
- Folio
- 102r
- Recorded provenance
- not given on vHMML
- Place evidence
- Provenance wording supplied by the source catalogue.
- Catalogue source
- Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project
- Source record
- paintings.csv, Painting ID 1497 (3 episode rows)