About this work
The chief of the thieves hiding behind a tree
Original catalogue wording
4. The chief of the thieves hiding behind a tree | 5. Zakāryās standing before St Mary, who is sitting on a throne surrounded by angels, and collects roses out of his mouth | 6. The thieves hiding behind trees | 7. The thieves being consecrated as monks
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 014. The chief of the thieves hiding behind a treePosition recorded by PEMM: top-left
The chief of the thieves
- 025. Zakāryās standing before St Mary, who is sitting on a throne surrounded by angels, and collects roses out of his mouthPosition recorded by PEMM: top-right
How our Lady received roses from the mouth of Zakāryās; Angels
- 036. The thieves hiding behind treesPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-left
Thieves
- 047. The thieves being consecrated as monksPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-left
The teacher who consecrated the thieves as monks; How the thieves became monks
- Source date
- 1632-1667
- Date evidence
- The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from king's name”.
- Holding institution
- University of Hamburg
- Shelfmark
- DD-001
- Folio
- 38v
- Recorded provenance
- Dabra Dāmmo ʾAbuna ʾAragāwi
- 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 1731 (4 episode rows)