About this work
The article uses this prayer scroll as a comparison for the portable, protective devotional functions proposed for sensuls.
Description written for this catalogue from Christine Sciacca's Figure 9 caption and accompanying analysis, and claims nothing beyond them.
- Source date
- Late 19th–early 20th century (?)
- Date evidence
- Date wording taken from the article caption. Where the article's analysis disagrees with the caption, both readings are kept and labelled here rather than one being chosen.
- Holding institution
- The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
- Shelfmark
- 2001.32.7
- Recorded provenance
- Ethiopia
- Place evidence
- Place wording transcribed from the peer-reviewed article caption; it is not expanded into a province.
- Catalogue source
- Sciacca, “Exploring Sensuls” (The Journal of the Walters Art Museum 76)
- Source record
- Christine Sciacca, “Exploring Sensuls,” Figure 9