Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 309
lis of the ancient monastery,1 longburied under mounds of sand. Among the most remarkable are the series inChapel III representing the story of David, a cycle which was not a favouritewith the earliest Christian artists, but had become popular by the sixth century.2In the seventh chapel is a group… … Fig. 173. Mural paintings, Monastery of St. Jeremias, Saqqara.(Photo communicated by J. E. Quibell, Esq.) P. 283. to be personified by a female figure, the Temptation of St. Pachomius, mountedfigures of St. Phoebammon and St. Sisinnius, with animals connected with themyth of Horus : in the…
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