Parchment
Object Type
Church Objects, Documents and Inscriptions, Paintings and Drawings
Material
Painting, Paper | Parchment | Papyrus
Country of Origin
Greece
Credit
The Government of the Hellenic Republic
Caption
Import Restricted since 2011.
Section II.G of Designated List in force since 2011.
The ecclesiastical ethnological materials represent the Early Christian and Byzantine periods and include objects made from 324 A.D. through the 15th century A.D.
Documents such as illuminated manuscripts occur in single leaves or bound as a book or "codex" and are written or painted on animal skins (cattle, sheep/goat, camel) known as parchment.
Example shown:
Leaf 281v of an illustrated manuscript (book of Psalms), depicting the 3 children in the fiery
Material: Tempera on Parchment; Period: 12th century A.D.; Provenance: Unknown; Place of Production: Mainland Greece; Dimensions: 16.5 cm. x 12 cm.
Benaki Museum, Athens