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Detail of Saint Sergius equiped as a Turcopole, Icon, Acre, 13th century.
St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, Egypt
Title: Double-Sided icon with Saints Sergius and Bacchus and the Virgin Hodegetria
Work Number: 50
Date: 13th century
Is Referenced By: Michigan Inventory Number 63
References: County of Tripoli or Sinai; Product of a Veneto-Crusader atelier at Acre, recently called the Workshop of the Soldier Saints. New research, however, points to Syrian or Cypriot characteristics.
Medium: obverse: tempera and metal leaf with pigmented varnish on panel; reverse: tempera and silver-colored leaf with pigmented varnish on panel
Physical Dimensions: 95.3 x 62.9 x 4 cm
Source: The Sinai Icon Collection, Princeton
(St Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt)