Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Orpheus / Adaptations

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Science, technology and medicine / Medicine / Magic and miraculous healing
Flora and Fauna / Animals / Bear / Miscellaneous
Flora and Fauna / Animals / Boar
Flora and Fauna / Animals / Bull / General
Flora and Fauna / Animals / Elephant / Miscellaneous
Flora and Fauna / Animals / Goat
Flora and Fauna / Animals / Horse / Individual / Unnamed
Flora and Fauna / Animals / Lion / Miscellaneous
Flora and Fauna / Animals / Sheep
Flora and Fauna / Animals / Snake / Miscellaneous
Flora and Fauna / Animals / Stag

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Old Testament / Genesis / Adam and Eve / Before the fall / Adam alone in Paradise
Saints / Apostles / Paul / Single figure / Full Figure - Seated, not as a scribe
Saints / Apostles / Paul / Life / Paul in Caesarea (Acts 23-25) / Defends his innocence before Felix (Acts 24:10-25)
Saints / Apostles / Paul / Life / Voyage to Rome (Acts 27-28) / Miracle of the snake (Acts 28:2-6)

Further details

left half: upper register: interpreted as St Paul enthroned or as St Paul before the governor Felix; middle register: St Paul on Malta; lower register: healing of two sick persons; right half: Adam in Paradise, similar to depictions of Orpheus

Artist or creator

Italian (northern) or
Constantinople

Date

4th century (late)

Location

Florence, Museo Stibbert

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Robert Eisler, Orphisch-dionysische Mysteriengedanken in der christlichen Antike (Vorträge der Bibliothek Warburg 1922-1923, part II), Berlin 1925; Ormonde M. Dalton, Byzantine Art and Archaeology, Oxford 1911, p. 195, fig. 116-7

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

Contact

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