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Ivory Icon with Saint Demetrios in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2008

Ivory Icon with Saint Demetrios in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2008
Ivory icon with Saint Demetrios
Byzantine
Carved about 950-1000
Inscribed in Greek: Saint Demetrios

The Cloisters Collection, Accession # 1970.324.3

Demetrios, patron saint of Thessalonike, the second city of the Byzantine Empire, was one of the most popular saints. An early Christian martyr, Demetrios is shown here in the military attire typical for Middle Byzantine representations of him.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

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