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Akhmim Architecture, Arts, and Crafts Akhmim Architecture, Arts, and Crafts
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Ciboria Ciboria
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23 Toward an Understanding of the ‘Akhmim Style’ Icons and Ciboria: The Indigenous and the Foreign1
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Published:May 2008
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Abstract
The Akhmim ciboria and icons with saints displaying rosaries fit into the period between the inimitable Mattary and the sophisticated Ibrahim al-Nasih, who worked between the 1740s and 1780. It is art of a theological and artistic revival, of ecumenism but also of provincial restraint, and lacking major artists. Without documents this attribution remains preliminary. New discoveries in the illustrated and dated Coptic-Arabic manuscripts from the Akhmim region, presented by Father Bigoul al-Suriany in this volume, will expand our knowledge. The meaning of the rosary as the symbol of the Coptic Catholic faith or as a sign of modernity has to be further researched. Christians in Upper Egypt cling to their traditions. Perhaps the most interesting feature of the modest Akhmim figurative art from the Beylik-Mamluk and missionary eras are those details that are loaned from late antique and early Coptic art in the Thebaide. Used more than a millennium later on hybrid Coptic-Arabic icons, these local attributes and gestures again demonstrate the remarkable survival of indigenous iconography.
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