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Christ Pantocrator of Sinai

Unknown Byzantine master, 550

Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai

This is one of the oldest surviving panel icons of Christ, painted in hot wax around the 500s, probably in Constantinople, then carried to a desert monastery in the Sinai.

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