Enciclopedia Cattolica

Plate XXIII · Seven Sleepers, Saints

Vol. XI (1953) · full-page plate
Above: REMAINS OF THE PRESBYTERY of the church of the Seven Sleepers at Ephesus (5th cent.). Below: THE SEVEN SLEEPERS IN THE CAVE. On the right the bag, taken by Jamblichus to put food in it, as the legend has it, during the brief and temporary return to life. Miniature from the Menologion of Basil II (967-1025) - Biblioteca Vaticana, cod. Vat. grec. 1613, f. 133.
(da C. Praschniker, Das Cosmetarium der Sieben Schläfer [Forschungen in Ephesos, IV, 2], Boden 1937, p. 18. fig. 2)
Plate XXIII
(fot. Biblioteca Vaticana)
Above: REMAINS OF THE PRESBYTERY of the church of the Seven Sleepers at Ephesus (5th cent.). Below: THE SEVEN SLEEPERS IN THE CAVE. On the right the bag, taken by Jamblichus to put food in it, as the legend has it, during the brief and temporary return to life. Miniature from the Menologion of Basil II (967-1025) - Biblioteca Vaticana, cod. Vat. grec. 1613, f. 133.

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