PhotographAA-0304

Holy women at the tomb, Syriac lectionary, about 1220

Place: Mosul · today Iraq
Date: 13th century

Miniature of the women arriving at Christ's empty tomb, met by a seated angel, with soldiers asleep and stylised trees above, from the Syriac gospel lectionary British Library Add MS 7170, made in northern Iraq about 1216 to 1220.

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Holy women at the tomb, Syriac lectionary, about 1220

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