The Depiction of the Flight to Egypt and the Massacre of the Innocents in the St. Servatius Church in Maastricht: a Syriac Iconography on an early Medieval chancel relief from Metz? The title of this article about one of the oldest...
moreThe Depiction of the Flight to Egypt and the Massacre of the Innocents in the St. Servatius Church in Maastricht: a Syriac Iconography on an early Medieval chancel relief from Metz? The title of this article about one of the oldest sculptures ever found in the Netherlands is also the conclusion of the research presented in it. It is probably due to the fact that the results of the excavations (1985-1989) in the St. Servatius church have still not been published, that this very special sculpture has hardly become known. This pluteus, because that is the relief originally, must have been part of the cancelli that separated the choir from the church nave at the time that Einhard, the counselor of Charlemagne, was abbot of St. Servatius. These cancelli are mentioned in the 'Translatio et Miraculi SS. Marcellini et Petri' as Einhard describes the place where he had the relics of these Saints set up in the St. Servatius.
In: L’évangélisation des régions entre Meuse et Moselle et la fondation de l’abbaye d’Echternach (Ve-IXe siècle), Actes des 10e Journées Lotharingiennes : 28-30 octobre 1998 [au] Centre Universitaire de Luxembourg, Michel Polfer (ed.). P.S.H. CXVII Publications du CLUDEM, t. 16, pp. 365-390
