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The rich man from Qʷalāsis travelling with his companions on a ship
Original catalogue wording
1. The rich man from Qʷalāsis travelling with his companions on a ship | 2. The rich man fallen after his eye has been pierced by arrows from a group of enemies | 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
- 011. 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; Boat
- 022. 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 his eye with an arrow
- 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. And the rich Greek man was healed from all his injuries at once; The waxen statue of the rich Greek man
- Source date
- 18th
- Date evidence
- The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from catalog”.
- Holding institution
- Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France)
- Shelfmark
- 55
- Folio
- 40v
- Recorded provenance
- Gondar
- 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 1498 (3 episode rows)