# Icon

- By: Ethiopian Orthodox
- Date: After 1700
- Medium: Wood, paint, leather, iron
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 67 x 81 x 3.4 cm (26 3/8 x 31 7/8 x 1 5/16 in.)
- Culture: Ethiopia
- Credit line: Gift of Joseph and Patricia Brumit
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ys750c80da5-049f-48f1-a1f2-6f602d453b56)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/3a14208e60aee99820d5a1012fb54277.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Diptych with a half figure of Christ crowned with thorns, flanked by two small men in Turkish costume striking his head, Descent from the Cross with Mary twice, Joseph of Arimithea, Nicodemus, Salome and Elizabeth. The diptych icon has iron hinges, a hand hammered clasp and a leather bound back.