Robbers Lose Their Teeth
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Robbers Lose Their Teeth
- This painting (also called an illumination) appears in a manuscript dated to 1700-1799. You can view this painting in the manuscript Brown University, Ethiopic Collection, Manuscript No. 14, f. 38v, s. 92, or learn more about this manuscript at its PEMM Manuscript page. You can also read the related story at its PEMM Story page.
- This painting of PEMM Story ID 154 depicts 1 moment (or episode) in the story. The description of the episode in this painting, along with its keyword(s), is:
- 1. The two thieves attempting to eat the bread they stole from Yolyānā and Barbārā (full). The object(s) are spear; hat; bread; teeth; mesob; table.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: How they took their provisions and the teeth of the thieves were [...].
- The number of PEMM manuscripts that have paintings of this story is 36. The total number of paintings of this story in PEMM manuscripts is 48.
- PEMM's ID number for this painting is 453.
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