Between iconographic patterns and motifs from everyday life. The scene of an eye surgery performed by Saint Colluthos

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Starodubcev, T. (2018). Between iconographic patterns and motifs from everyday life. The scene of an eye surgery performed by Saint Colluthos, (42), 1-24. doi:10.2298/ZOG1842001S
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Title

Between iconographic patterns and motifs from everyday life. The scene of an eye surgery performed by Saint Colluthos

Subtitle
Author

Tatjana, Starodubcev

Journal

Zograf

Volume
Issue

42

Start page

1

End page

24

ISSN

0350-1361

ISBN
DOI

10.2298/ZOG1842001S

URL

http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?ID=0350-13611842001S

Date

2018-2020/03/12/14:19:30

Abstract

This paper presents the investigation of a scene on the second layer of paintings done around 800 in the Virgin Church of the Monastery of the Syrians (Deir al-Surian) in the Scetis Desert or the Nitrian Desert (Wadi Al-Natrun). In it one can see Saint Colluthos performing a surgical operation on an eye. Also presented are writings dedicated to the saint and his cult and images of him. One can recognise influences of pagan traditions and Christian iconographic patterns and details of contemporary everyday life in the scene. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 177036]

Keywords

Egypt, cult, eye, ophthalmology, representation, Saint Colluthos, Scetis Desert, surgery, the Monastery of the Syrians, the Virgin Church