About this work
Mary helps the man when he calls on her and he shoots forty arrows at the serpent
Original catalogue wording
2. Mary helps the man when he calls on her and he shoots forty arrows at the serpent | 3. The man finds a pearl in the dead serpent's brain | 4. Following Mary's command, the man built a church in Sidon for her to display the pearl
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 012. Mary helps the man when he calls on her and he shoots forty arrows at the serpentPosition recorded by PEMM: top-left
- 023. The man finds a pearl in the dead serpent's brainPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom
- 034. Following Mary's command, the man built a church in Sidon for her to display the pearlPosition recorded by PEMM: top-right
- Source date
- 19th
- Date evidence
- The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from JRB and SGD”.
- Holding institution
- Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
- Shelfmark
- 8.10
- Folio
- 7r
- Recorded provenance
- Qedus Giyorgis Church, Bichena, Gojjam
- 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 1578 (3 episode rows)