Icon with Christ Pantokrator
Unknown
ca. 1350 or later · Steatite, green · Medieval Art
The inscription identifies the image as Christ Antiphonetes, an icon type used by the empress Zoe (r. 1028–50) for her coinage. Steatite, easily carved stone, usually soft green or buff in color, came to be widely used for the production of small icons.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1350 or later
- Medium
- Steatite, green
- Culture
- Byzantine
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1979
