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Christ is the white-haired Ancient
of Days on this late-sixth century CE icon from St Catherin’s Monastery, Sinai.
The name Emmanuel (‘God with us’) hovers about him, while the frame bears a votive
dedication: ‘For the salvation and pardon of the sins of your sins
Philochristos’. (taken from figure 31, Francesca Stavrakopoulou, God: An
Anatomy [London: Picador, 2021])
An aged, pot-bellied Christ sits
enthroned as the Ancient of Days, flanked by Peter and Paul. Detail from a fifth-
or sixth-century CE ivory panel, likely once part of a diptych, and later recycled
as a Gospel book cover. (Ibid.)
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