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Herewith some medieval images of St. Sabas of Jerusalem (a.k.a. Sabas the Sanctified; Sabas also spelled as Saba, Sabbas, Sava, Savva, and Savvas):
a) Sabas of Jerusalem (at left; at right, St. Euthymius the Great) as depicted in eighth-century frescoes in the chiesa di Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome:
http://tinyurl.com/m7b4dyc
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/o5fsvyu
b) Sabas of Jerusalem as depicted on a probably twelfth-century lead seal of the monastery of Mar Saba in the Kidron valley near Jerusalem:
http://www.messagetoeagle.com/sealstsabas.php#.VIIgbHvQIg9
Robert Kool's scholarly discussion of this object, "From Mar Saba to Bayit Ve-Gan in Jerusalem: A New Frankish Period Seal of St. Sabas" as published in _New Studies in the Archaeology of Jerusalem and its Region_ 8 (2014), *6-*17, is available here:
https://www.academia.edu/9007390/From_Mar_Saba_to_Bayit_Ve-Gan_in_Jerusalem_A_New_Frankish_Period_Seal_of_St._Sabas
c) Sabas of Jerusalem as depicted in the later twelfth-century frescoes (ca. 1164) in the church of St. Panteleimon (Pantaleon) at Gorno Nerezi (Skopje municipality) in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://www.orthodoxy-icons.com/uploads/posts/2011-04/1304066313_city-nonresonant0053.jpg
Detail view:
http://www.orthodoxy-icons.com/uploads/posts/2011-04/1304066291_city-nonresonant0052.jpg
d) Sabas of Jerusalem as depicted in the originally early thirteenth-century frescoes (1208 or 1209; carefully repainted in 1569) in the nave of the church of the Theotokos in the Studenica monastery near Kraljevo (Raška dist.) in Serbia (for a clearer view, click on the image):
http://ica.princeton.edu/tomekovic/display.php?country=Serbia&site=&view=country&page=19&image=439
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/l2np6ts
e) Sabas of Jerusalem as depicted in the earlier thirteenth-century frescoes (1230s) in the narthex of the church of the Ascension in the Mileševa monastery near Prijepolje (Zlatibor dist.) in Serbia:
http://www.srpskoblago.org/Archives/Mileseva/Details/n1-w2e2/large/l1-1-4.jpg
Detail view:
http://www.srpskoblago.org/Archives/Mileseva/Details/n1-w2e2/large/l1-1-3.jpg
f) Sabas of Jerusalem (at left; at right, St. Anthony of Egypt) as depicted in the later thirteenth-century frescoes (1259) in the church of Sts. Nicholas and Panteleimon at Boyana near the Bulgarian capital of Sofia:
http://galenf.com/Bulgaria/36/bu_0001a1.jpg
g) Sabas of Jerusalem (second from left, after St. Euthymius the Great and before Sts. Theodore the Stoudite and Stephen the Younger) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1308 and ca. 1320) by Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the church of St. Nicetas the Goth (Sv. Nikita) at Čučer in today's Čučer-Sandevo in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/mrkmkj4
h) Sabas of Jerusalem as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1311 and ca. 1322) in the church of St. Nicholas Orphanos in Thessaloniki:
http://www.orthodoxy-icons.com/uploads/posts/2011-05/1304248967_olympia0133.jpg
i) Sabas of Jerusalem (arch soffit at right, lower figure) as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century mosaic (ca. 1312) in the parecclesion (now a museum) of the former church of the Pammakaristos (Fethiye camii) in Istanbul:
http://www.pbase.com/dosseman/image/126214633
Another view:
http://tinyurl.com/2wzm645
j) Sabas of Jerusalem (third from left; after Sts. Ephraem the Syrian and Paul of Thebes and before St. John Climacus) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1312 and 1321) in the parecclesion of the Theotokos in the monastery church of the Theotokos at Gračanica in, depending on one's view of the matter, Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo:
http://www.srpskoblago.org/Archives/Gracanica/exhibits/digital/s1-e1e4/large/s1-e1e4-22.jpg
Detail views (Sabas of Jerusalem):
https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/1811/39468/HIL_ENICH_FMS_2_34.jpg?sequence=1
http://www.srpskoblago.org/Archives/Gracanica/exhibits/digital/s1-e1e4/large/s1-e1e4-25.jpg
k) Sabas of Jerusalem (at left; at right, St. Stephen the Younger) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1317 and 1324) in the nave of the church of St. Demetrius in the Patriarchate of Peć at Peć in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/23k2734
Detail view (Sabas of Jerusalem):
http://tinyurl.com/3o3npvu
l) Sabas of Jerusalem (at right; at left, St. John the Forerunner) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (1330s) in the nave of the church of the Hodegetria in the Patriarchate of Peć at Peć in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/44pf2wp
Detail view (Sabas of Jerusalem):
http://ica.princeton.edu/tomekovic/display.php?country=&location=Pec&view=&page=107&image=1940
m) Sabas of Jerusalem (at left; at right, St. Stephen the Younger) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (1330s) of the church of the Holy Savior (Sv. Spas) at Kuceviste in today's Čučer-Sandevo in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://www.orthodoxy-icons.com/uploads/posts/2011-03/1301591045_st-saviour-kuchevishte-034.jpg
Detail views (Sabas of Jerusalem):
http://ica.princeton.edu/tomekovic/display.php?country=Macedonia&site=&view=country&page=3&image=1865
http://www.orthodoxy-icons.com/uploads/posts/2011-03/1301591125_st-saviour-kuchevishte-056.jpg
n) Sabas of Jerusalem (at left; at right, St. Nicholas of Myra) as depicted in a December calendar composition in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) in the church of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://www.srpskoblago.org/Archives/Decani/exhibits/Menologion/December/CX4K3549_l.html
o) Sabas of Jerusalem as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) on an arch soffit in the nave of the church of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://www.srpskoblago.org/Archives/Decani/exhibits/Frescoes/Nave/NorthChoir-2/CX4K2314_l.html
p) Sabas of Jerusalem (at left; at right, St. Anthony of Egypt) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) in the parecclesion of St. Nicholas in the church of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/bmqsw6x
Detail view (Sabas of Jerusalem):
http://tinyurl.com/bnuq5dh
q) Sabas of Jerusalem (very probably; at center, betw. Sts. Arsenius the Great and Euthymius the Great) as depicted in the mid-fourteenth-century frescoes of the monastery church of St. Michael the Archangel at Lesnovo in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://www.orthodoxy-icons.com/uploads/posts/2011-03/1301479317_lesna-monastery-209.jpg
r) Sabas of Jerusalem (at right; at left, St. Theodosius the Coenobiarch) as depicted in the late fourteenth-century frescoes (1389; restored in the early 1970s) in the church of St. George at Matka (Skopje dist.) in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://www.orthodoxy-icons.com/uploads/posts/2011-04/1301862989_church-of-st.-andrew-014.jpg
s) Sabas of Jerusalem as depicted in an early fifteenth-century panel painting (1408) by Andrei Rublev for the Assumption cathedral in Vladimir, now in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow:
http://uploads2.wikiart.org/images/andrei-rublev/the-last-judgement-sabbas-the-sanctified-1408.jpg
t) Sabas of Jerusalem as depicted in a full-page illumination in an earlier fifteenth-century psalter and horologium (1419) of undetermined origin (Paris, BnF, ms. Grec 12, fol. 217v):
http://tinyurl.com/lt4zrdm
u) Sabas of Jerusalem (at right, with Sts. Euthymius the Great and Anthony of Egypt) as depicted in a mid-fifteenth-century Novgorod School icon tablet now in Pavel Korin's Museum in Moscow:
http://www.icon-art.info/masterpiece.php?lng=en&mst_id=846
v) Sabas of Jerusalem as depicted in an earlier sixteenth-century fresco (1546/47) by George / Tzortzis the Cretan in the katholikon of the Dionysiou monastery on Mt. Athos:
http://pemptousia.com/files/2012/12/savva-dionysiou-1547.jpg
Best,
John Dillon
On 12/05/14, "Heintzelman, Matthew" wrote:
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