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The bishop sitting on a throne in front of a group of women accusing Sofyā
Original catalogue wording
3. The bishop sitting on a throne in front of a group of women accusing Sofyā | 4. The bishop and Sofyā sitting next to each other | 5. The bishop sitting next to Finkǝs and the child | 6. The child as a grown man is appointed bishop, he is surrounded by two persons
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 013. The bishop sitting on a throne in front of a group of women accusing SofyāPosition recorded by PEMM: left
How the nuns accused Sofya to the archbishop; Sofya; How Abba Sofya archbishop Abba Zakaryas (scribal error? omitted word?)
- 024. The bishop and Sofyā sitting next to each otherPosition recorded by PEMM: top-right
Caption partially illegible: How Sofya spoke to the archbishop alone...
- 035. The bishop sitting next to Finkǝs and the childPosition recorded by PEMM: center-right
How the archbishop was presented the child from the presence of Finkəs
- 046. The child as a grown man is appointed bishop, he is surrounded by two personsPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-right
When the archbishop who had admonished Sofya died, the son of Sofya was appointed archbishop after him in his seat
- 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
- 141v
- 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 1740 (4 episode rows)