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Icon with the Koimesis

Late-900s Byzantine ivory icon of the Koimesis, or Dormition of the Virgin, registered from the Met collection record.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 17.190.132

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Title: Icon with the Koimesis
Date: late 900s
Medium: Elephant ivory
Culture: Byzantine
Geography: Made in probably Constantinople
Classification: Ivories-Elephant
Source record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art object 17.190.132 ↗
Rights checked: 2026-09-10 · Public Domain

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Preserved registry: museum-object-reference; check current image rights before reuse

Current verification: The current official Met object record marks the image Public Domain and the Met Open Access statement permits unrestricted reuse of public-domain images.

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Geography + Transmission profile

Constantinople & Marmara

4th–15th c. Byzantine core; records vary · 1 registered source

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Historical frame

Imperial-capital and Marmara/Nicaean context.

Production / use

Object record: Late-900s Byzantine ivory icon of the Koimesis, or Dormition of the Virgin, registered from the Met collection record. Production place is taken only from explicit museum/graph evidence; current collection is a separate present-location state.

Movement / provenance

BIU010 does not infer medieval movement from current museum ownership. Any gift/provenance hypothesis must be carried by an explicit source-backed network record.

Political / ecclesiastical

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Artistic relation

Object style is not used by itself to draw a transmission arrow.

Reception / adaptation

Current collection/reception is modern context and is not substituted for medieval geography.

Uncertainty

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Geography is not transmission proofGeographic proximity, shared typology, or visual similarity does not establish influence, workshop movement, trade, or transmission direction.

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Places + regional groupings

2 direct

Constantinopleassociated-with · qualified-source-backed Constantinopolitan Luxury Production Network← includes-object-production-evidence · qualified-source-backed

Verified objects

0 direct

No direct edge in this part of the current graph.

Icon types + scenes

1 direct

Koimesis / Dormition of the Virgindepicts-scene · source-backed

Materials + making

2 direct

Ivoryuses-material · source-backed Relief Carvinguses-technique · source-backed

History + actors

0 direct

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Sacred-space evidence

0 direct

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Concepts + transmission methods

1 direct

Rights & Provenance Boundary← governs · system-rule

Two-step navigation

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Icon with the Koimesisdepicts-scene →Koimesis / Dormition of the Virginrepresented-at →Chora Church / Monastery

Icon with the Koimesisassociated-with →Constantinople← located-in →Hagia Sophia

Icon with the Koimesisuses-material →Ivory← uses-material →Icon with Christ Pantokrator (Met 17.190.66)

Icon with the Koimesisuses-material →Ivory← uses-material →Icon with the Virgin and Child (Met 17.190.103)

Icon with the Koimesisuses-material →Ivoryused-for →Deesis

Icon with the Koimesisassociated-with →Constantinople← associated-with →Virgin Hodegetria

Icon with the Koimesis← governs →Rights & Provenance Boundarydistinct-from →Icon Panel Making Reconstruction

Icon with the Koimesisuses-technique →Relief Carvingproduces-effect →Carved Relief Depth

Icon with the Koimesisdepicts-scene →Koimesis / Dormition of the Virgingrows-in-prominence-after →Restoration of Images, 843

Icon with the Koimesisdepicts-scene →Koimesis / Dormition of the Virginincludes →Saint Peter

Icon with the Koimesisuses-material →Ivory← can-use-material →Icon

Icon with the Koimesisassociated-with →Constantinople← connects →Byzantine–Slavic Transmission

Geography source trail

Sources supporting this profile.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Icon with the Koimesis
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museum-object-reference; check current image rights before reuse

Discovery profile

Where can this record lead?

6 bounded direct results · 12 bounded two-step paths · 1 navigation theme

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IvoryIcon with the Koimesis —uses-material→ Ivory · source-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-218.Koimesis / Dormition of the VirginIcon with the Koimesis —depicts-scene→ Koimesis / Dormition of the Virgin · source-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-217.Relief CarvingIcon with the Koimesis —uses-technique→ Relief Carving · source-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-393.ConstantinopleIcon with the Koimesis —associated-with→ Constantinople · qualified-source-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-219.

Visible two-step paths

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Icon with the Koimesisuses-materialIvoryuses-materialIcon with Christ Pantokrator (Met 17.190.66)
Two explicit edges; intermediate record remains visible.
Icon with the Koimesisuses-materialIvoryuses-materialIcon with the Virgin and Child (Met 17.190.103)
Two explicit edges; intermediate record remains visible.
Icon with the Koimesisuses-materialIvoryuses-materialIcon with the Deesis (Met 17.190.133)
Two explicit edges; intermediate record remains visible.

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