Type 5534
(formerly typ/3588)

Σκιὰν σκιᾶς ἔγραψας, ὦ χεὶρ ζωγράφου·
Σκιὰ γὰρ ἦν τὸ σῶμα τοῦ Χρυσοστόμου,
Λεπτυνθὲν ὡς ἄσαρκον ἐξ ἀσιτίας·
Καὶ θαῦμα τοῦτο πῶς σκιὰν σκιᾶς γράφεις.
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s) Author-related epigram
Person(s)
Poet
Manuel Philes (1275-1345) - PLP: XII.29817
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Subject(s) John Chrysostom (saint)
Tag(s) Praise of the author
Translation(s) 0 Painter, your hand has painted the shadow of a shadow,
for the body of the Egyptian woman was a shadow;
or rather, to put it precisely,
from a shadow you have painted material suffering.
Language
English
Source(s)
H. Maguire, 1996, The Icons of Their Bodies: Saints and Their Images in Byzantium, Princeton: 74
Comment
Maguire (1996: 74) provides the translation of a variation of the epigram.
Comment A variation of this epigram was written by Manuel Philes to be inscribed upon an image of Saint Mary of Egypt (Maguire 1996: 74). The text of this poem is edited by E. Miller (1855, I: 36).
Bibliography
Number of verses 4
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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 675: "Manuel Philes, In imaginem s. Ioannis Chrysostomi"
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