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Images of emperor and emirs in early Islamic Egypt
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At some point in the seventh century, an artist in Egypt sat down to decorate a Sahidic Coptic manuscript containing books of the Old Testament. At the conclusion to the Book of Job, on the blank half page beneath, and under the bold Coptic title ‘Job the Just’ (written in the same hand as the preceding text), this artist decided to depict the eponymous hero alongside his three daughters – Hemera, Kasia, and Amalthaias. The subsequent sketches, all frontal and standing in a row, are striking...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1515/9783110725612-019
- Publication website:
- https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110725612
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- Publisher:
- De Gruyter Publisher's website
- Host title:
- The Good Christian Ruler in the First Millennium: Views from the Wider Mediterranean World in Conversation
- Series:
- Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies
- Series number:
- 92
- Pages:
- 397-420
- Publication date:
- 2021-07-19
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-09-04
- Event title:
- Images of the Good Christian Ruler in the Mediterranean and the Near East (4th-10th Centuries)
- Event location:
- Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany
- Event website:
- http://www.geschichte.uni-frankfurt.de/70685547/Leibniz-Projekt-Englisch
- Event start date:
- 2016-11-09
- Event end date:
- 2016-11-11
- DOI:
- EISBN:
- 9783110725612
- ISBN:
- 9783110724691
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- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:925170
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- pubs:925170
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- Deposit date:
- 2018-10-09
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- Copyright holder:
- Phil Booth
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © 2021 Phil Booth, published by De Gruyter. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
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