A detail of NT 30 - A sleeping soldier at the empty tomb, Ivory Alter Panels, 12th century, Museo Diocesano, Salerno, Southern Italy

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Ivory Alter Panels, 12th century
Museo Diocesano, Salerno, Southern Italy
A detail of NT 30 - A sleeping soldier at the empty tomb

A detail of NT 30 - A sleeping soldier at the empty tomb, Ivory Alter Panels, 12th century, Museo Diocesano, Salerno, Southern Italy

Photo by Emilio

Salerno Ivories
Museo diocesano, Salerno

The sleeping guards are referenced as figure 603A in The military technology of classical Islam by D Nicolle
603A to 603E. Ivory alter-back, A - Guards at the Tomb, B - Herod's Soldiers, C - Sacrifice of Isaac, D - Guards at the Crucifixion E - Massacre of the Innocents, 1100-1150 AD, Sicilian or south Italian, Cathedral Museum, Salerno (Car).

The 1st sleeping soldier at the empty tomb, Ivory Alter Panels, 12th century, Museo Diocesano, Salerno, Southern Italy
A 3rd sleeping soldier at the empty tomb, Ivory Alter Panels, 12th century, Museo Diocesano, Salerno, Southern Italy
Back to the NT 29 & 30 Healing of the blind man at Siloam / The Marys at the empty tomb - Ivory Alter Panels, 12th century, Museo Diocesano, Salerno, Southern Italy

Sicilian Greek Infantryman (Griffon), 11th Century in Armies of Feudal Europe 1066-1300 by Ian Heath, based on The Sleeping Guards on this Ivory Alter Panel, Museo Diocesano, Salerno, Southern Italy