Traveling icon, diptych; brass; scene on back of left half; Golgotha; inside left: Mother of God with Christ child being venerated by two saints; inside right: St. Nicholas flanked by Jesus on left; Mother of God on right; curvilinear design back of right half; width 6 cm., height 2.7 cm.
Donor:
University Art Museum (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Russia
Collection date:
pre-1968
Person depicted:
Jesus Christ (founder of Christianity), Mary (mother of Jesus), and Saint Nicholas
Place depicted:
Golgotha
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Diptychs
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1968
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)