“Astarte Syriaca”
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1877)

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1665 manuscript of Biblical and liturgical texts in more than a dozen languages, including Syriac, German, Greek, Arabic, Persian, Coptic. Each page of text faces a corresponding illustration. BL, Add MS 5242. https://t.co/aKToqZl7BG

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The earliest crucifixion in an illuminated manuscript, from the Syriac Rabbula Gospels, 586 CE

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Explore this Gospel Lectionary from c. 1216-20 with images of the Last Supper, the kiss of Judas, and the Crucifixion. Add MS 7170. https://t.co/rtOzKG84Jh

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another dappervolk oc, syriaca

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Here's a copy of the Gospels in Syriac and Arabic Garshuni. From this is Rendel Harris 33. Copied at St. Chalita Monastery in Lebanon. It has a couple of small decorations. A little snowflake cutout also laid in. See it here: https://t.co/JdL65Cr0JO

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hi!!!! im jackson im a bi syriac and i draw funny jojos (mainly diu n jjl) with the same three colors

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Pero de estas obras sin duda destaca “Astarté Syriaca” de Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Astarté es una divinidad oriental que se intentó asimilar sin éxito en el panteón griego. Es, al igual que Hécate, una Gran Diosa, precedente a los demás dioses, una “Diosa Madre”.

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Manuscripts from the Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul, Iraq. A grammar book with geometric decoration, written in script, in the language, it dates to the 17th/18th-century. The author is Timotheos Isḥāq, Metropolitan of Amid (active 1654-1665).
via: hmml

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