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Omophorion
Not on view
Many wealthy Armenian patrons of scholarship and the arts lived in Aleppo, a major stop on the silk routes. The inscription on this handsome omophorion, a stole worn by ranking clergy, records that it "was decorated in Aleppo . . . by order of Hakob the Good rabunapet." Hakob was probably the head of the Dasatun, the Armenian college of theological and philosophical learning in Aleppo, which hired noted Armenian and Western artists to teach young painters in manuscript production.
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