Relief slab of a sarcophagus
10th century
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Between 1274 and 1317 a series of architectural sculptures, liturgical furniture (pulpits, icon stands) and funerary monuments (sarcophagi) in Thessaly, Ochrid, Beroia, Thessalonike and on Mount Athos were executed in the same technique of bas-relief, in which the background was filled with a coloured mixture of wax and mastic. The decorative themes of these carvings are of Islamic inspiration. Thessalonike has been proposed as the production centre.
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