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A few Gabriels:
1) At left (at right, St. John the Forerunner) in a detail of the deesis on the cover of a mid-tenth-century reliquary of the Holy Cross from Constantinople, since 1835 property of the Diocese of Limburg an der Lahn:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28433765@N07/3767872589#/
2) At bottom, receiving (at right) and acting upon (at left) the divine command to carry the Annunciation to the Theotokos, as depicted in an earlier twelfth-century copy of Jacob of Coccinobaphi, _Orationes encomiasticae in SS. Virginem Deiparam_(Paris, BnF, ms. Grec 1208, fol. 153v):
http://tinyurl.com/6yqhjnw
3) Descending to Mary, delivering the Annunciation, and returning to heaven as in the same earlier twelfth-century copy of Jacob of Coccinobaphi, _Orationes encomiasticae in SS. Virginem Deiparam_(Paris, BnF, ms. Grec 1208, fols. 159v, 160v, 177v):
http://tinyurl.com/4zan5p7
http://tinyurl.com/4hnc2hh
http://tinyurl.com/4f9beu9
4) In an earlier thirteenth-century icon from Constantinople now at St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai:
http://tinyurl.com/4mgsv9e
5) In an earlier fourteenth-century fresco (1330s) in the nave of the church of the Hodegetria in the Patriarchate of Peæ at Peæ in, depending on one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/4z7axmv
6) On an earlier fifteenth-century deesis range from Tver now in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow:
http://tinyurl.com/6kfls6s
The deesis range in its entirety:
http://www.icon-art.info/group.php?lng=en&grp_id=29
Best,
John Dillon
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