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  2. Christ Pantocrator (Sinai) - Wikipedia

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    Some scholars have suggested the icon at Sinai could have been a possible representation of the Kamouliana icon of Christ [11] or of the famous icon of Christ of the Chalke Gate, [12] an image which was destroyed twice during the first and second waves of Byzantine Iconoclasm—first in 726, and again in 814—and thus its connection with the ...

  3. Mount Sinai - Wikipedia

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    Mount Sinai (Hebrew: הַר סִינַי ‎ Har Sīnay; Aramaic: ܛܘܪܐ ܕܣܝܢܝ Ṭūrāʾ dəSīnăy; Coptic: Ⲡⲧⲟⲟⲩ Ⲥⲓⲛⲁ), also known as Jabal Musa (Arabic: جَبَل مُوسَىٰ, translation: Mountain of Moses), is a mountain on the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt.

  4. Christ Pantocrator (Palladas) - Wikipedia

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    Christ Pantocrator is a tempera painting created by Ieremias Palladas.Ieremias was associated with Saint Catherine's sacred monastery in Egypt also known as Mount Sinai. He was a Sinaitic monk, painter, and teacher.

  5. Transfiguration of Jesus in Christian art - Wikipedia

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    The Sinai image is recognizably the same scene as found on modern Orthodox icons, with some differences: only Christ has a halo, which is still typical at this date, and the plain gold background removes the question of depicting the mountain setting which was to cause later Western artists difficulties. The shape of the apse space puts the ...

  6. Sinai Peninsula - Wikipedia

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    Image from Gemini 11 spacecraft, featuring part of Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula in the foreground and the Levant in the background. Sinai is triangular in shape, with its northern shore lying on the southern Mediterranean Sea, and its southwest and southeast shores on the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba of the Red Sea.

  7. John Tohabi - Wikipedia

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    John Tohabi (Georgian: იოანე თოჴაბი, romanized: ioane toẖabi; fl. late 11th - early 12th century [a]) was a Georgian ordained priest, hieromonachos [3] and icon painter whose works were donated in the High Middle Ages to the Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai and its monastic community, [4] [5] originally all displayed together for the decoration of the entire ...

  8. Christ Pantocrator - Wikipedia

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    Christ Pantocrator mosaic in Byzantine style from the Cefalù Cathedral, Sicily. The most common translation of Pantocrator is "Almighty" or "All-powerful". In this understanding, Pantokrator is a compound word formed from the Greek words πᾶς, pas (GEN παντός pantos), i.e. "all" [4] and κράτος, kratos, i.e. "strength", "might", "power". [5]

  9. Golden calf - Wikipedia

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    The Adoration of the Golden Calf – picture from the Hortus deliciarum of Herrad of Landsberg (12th century). According to the Torah and the Quran, the golden calf (Hebrew: עֵגֶל הַזָּהָב, romanized: ʿēḡel hazzāhāḇ) was a cult image made by the Israelites when Moses went up to Mount Sinai.