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Fresco with the Protoplasts Adam and Eve from the eastern narrow side of a twin vaulted tomb

Vaulted tomb covered with wall paintings organised in partitions with themes from the Old and New Testaments. The eastern narrow side of the tomb is adorned with a panel surrounded by red and green band depicting the Protoplasts after their disobedience. The depiction is organised around a tree with rich foliage around the trunk of which a snake is coiled. On the left is depicted the naked Adam, standing, shocked, trying to cover his nakedness with foliage. On the right is Eve wrapped below the waist in a green cloth. Her long hair is crowned, and she is raising her right hand in a gesture of speech while trying to gather her garment with her left. Above the painting of the Protoplasts, which adorned the entrance to the tomb, there is a representation of two birds of paradise and plants with red flowers.

 

Code

ΒΤ 156Α

Type

Wall painting, fresco (detached)

Chronology

360-370

Dimensions

Width: 310 cm., height: 152 cm.

Material of Construction

Paint on mortar