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Icons of Indian deities worshiped by the Kalmyk nomads of the Caucasus.

Tags: Ethnic groups, Icons, Kalmyk people, Kalmykia, Nomads, Religious practices, Russia

Icons seen by the author in Russia.

Tags: Icons, Religious practices, Russia

Icon of Virgin Vrefokratousa Tricherousa (three-handed).

Tags: Icons, Religious practices, Russia, Vrefokratousa (Virgin holding infant Jesus)

The Virgin of Iber (Bleeding Vrefokratousa). The icon was kept at the Gate of the Resurrection (today part of the Red Square) in Moscow. According to the tradition, the Virgin bleeds because she was stabbed in the cheek by an iconoclast.

Tags: Icons, Moscow, Religious practices, Russia, Vrefokratousa (Virgin holding infant Jesus)

Christ Crucified from the Church of Panagia stin Petra, which was built on the site of the temple of Artemis Agrotera by Ilissus river.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Icons, Temple of Artemis Agrotera in Agrae / Panagia stin Petra (Athens)

Image of the Vrefokratousa (Virgin holding infant Jesus).

Tags: Art and antiquities, Greece, Icons, Religious practices, Vrefokratousa (Virgin holding infant Jesus)

Icons: 1. Deesis. 2. Saint George, Saint Isidorus and Saint Demetrius.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Greece, Icons, Religious practices

Relief of angel and coat of arms of Grand Master Émery d'Amboise, from D'Amboise Gate. Ottoman inscription from the same gate (“There is no god but God, Muhammad is the messenger of God."). Relief of Virgin with infant and coat of arms of Grand Master Pierre d'Aubusson, discovered in the Jewish quarter and kept at the Franciscan monastery in Rhodes. Coat of arms of the Knights Hospitaller from the medieval town. Latin inscription «In convertendo inimicum meum retrorsum infirmabuntur et peribunt a facie tua» (Psalms 9:3 “When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence”), referring to the siege of Rhodes by the Ottomans.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Coats of arms – Emblems, D'Amboise Gate (Rhodes), Dodecanese, Emery d'Amboise, Greece, Icons, Inscriptions, Medieval monuments, Medieval old town of Rhodes, Ottoman inscriptions, Ottoman monuments, Pierre d'Aubusson, Reliefs, Rhodes

Byzantine icon found among the ruins of Sepphoris or Diocaesarea (today Tzippori).

Tags: Art and antiquities, Galilee, Holy Land, Icons, Israel, Religious practices, Tzippori / anc. Diocesarea - Sephoris

Icon of Saint Michael Archangel from Coptic church of Alexandria.

Tags: Alexandria, Copts, Egypt, Icons, Religious practices, Saint Michael the Archangel

Iconographer nuns, Chios.

Tags: Aegean islands, Chios, Greece, Human types, Icons, Islands of the Northeastern Aegean sea, Monasteries

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