Holy Bishopric of Morphou: The apostle Paul, Church of the Holy Virgin in Moutoullas
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1280
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1280
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Late Byzantine Period
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St Paul, the apostle of the Nations, who was painted as a bald, oblong figure, with a brown beard and crooked nose. With his right raised hand he is giving the benediction and holding in his left hand an opened scroll, with a fragmentary inscription, written with capitals letters. The bunch of rolled scrolls symbolizes his epistles.
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