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Christ and Saint Menas (the Bawit Icon)Saints

Christ and Saint Menas (the Bawit Icon)

c. 6th–8th century (early Byzantine / Coptic; one of the oldest surviving Christian panel icons; recovered from the Apa Apollo Monastery at Bawit, Middle Egypt, by Jean Clédat's 1900–1903 excavations)· Musée du Louvre
Photograph: Musée du Louvre, Paris (Acc. E 11565). Wikimedia Commons. The underlying c. 6th–8th-century Coptic panel icon is in the public domain. Photographic reproduction in the public domain (CC0 / structured-data convention).