Mogao Christian painting
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The Mogao Christian painting, also known as Painting of a Christian figure or Fragment of a Christian figure, is a partially-recovered silk painting which was produced in the 9th century CE in Guiyi P
Mogao Christian painting
The cross-on-lotus symbol carved on the Xi'an Stele, which can also be seen in the headdress worn by the figure in this painting.
A copy
A reconstruction by a Japanese artist
Church of the East
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The Church of the East or the East Syriac Church, is one of three major branches of Eastern Nicene Christianity that arose from the Christological controversies in the 5th century and the 6th century,
Mogao Christian painting
…Western China. The painting depicts a haloed man with crosses on his head and chest; this figure has been interpreted as a Christian associated with the Church of the East. The painting was recovered by the Hungarian-born British archaeologist Aurel Stein at the Library Cave (Cave 17) of the Mogao Caves in 1908, and is…
East Syriac ceramic epitaph with Syriac and Uyghur writing.
Ruins of the Monastery of Saint Elijah in Mosul, Iraq, in 2005. The site was destroyed by the Islamic State in 2014.
Palm Sunday procession of Nestorian clergy in a 7th- or 8th-century wall painting from the Nestorian church at Karakhoja, Chinese Turkestan.