Art objects; Christian art and symbolism; Clergy - Clothing; Clergy; Coptic Church. Patriarch; Portraits; Priests
This is a portrait of an elderly Anba Basilios, a Coptic priest who was born in al-Qaṣr and died in Dishnā in 1966.
"Dechneh" was referenced in multiple writings by Dr. James M. Robinson, such as in The Biblical Archaeologist, Vol. 42, No. 4,...
Egyptians; Coptic Church; Coptic Church. Patriarch; Clergy - clothing; Christian art and symbolism; Clothing and dress - Egypt; Naj' Ḥammādī (Egypt); Munīr al-Qamṣ Basīlīyūs 'Abd al-Masīḥ; Portraits, Group
A bishop poses with Munīr and an English teacher along with other Naj' Ḥammādī community members, possibly from the Evangelical Coptic Church of Nag Hammadi.