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Iconography Decoder / Books + scrolls
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Scroll

Written scroll carried by prophets, saints or teachers as a textual and identifying attribute within Byzantine visual programs.

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Books + scrolls

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Observation

A rolled or partly unrolled scroll held by a figure.

Identification

Can support prophetic, teaching, or Christ-child contexts, depending on surrounding evidence.

Conventional association

The Christ Child in Hodegetria examples may carry a scroll; saints and prophets may also hold scrolls.

Theological interpretation

The scroll can signal written revelation or teaching in context.

Uncertainty

A scroll is not unique to one figure or type.

Safe-inference boundaryThis profile describes a source-bounded convention. It does not turn a generic clue into an assertion about any specific museum object unless an explicit object relationship/source supports that claim.
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Figures + icon types

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Virgin Hodegetria← includes-attribute · source-backed

Scenes

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Verified objects

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Materials + making

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Sacred space

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History + places

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Two-step navigation

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  1. Materials + making
    Scrollfunctions-as-attribute-inIconcan-use-mediumMosaic
    Two-step navigation path, not a new direct historical claim.
  2. Materials + making
    Scrollfunctions-as-attribute-inIconcan-use-mediumFresco
    Two-step navigation path, not a new direct historical claim.
  3. Materials + making
    Scrollfunctions-as-attribute-inIconcan-use-materialIvory
    Two-step navigation path, not a new direct historical claim.
  4. Materials + making
    Scrollfunctions-as-attribute-inIconcan-use-materialSteatite
    Two-step navigation path, not a new direct historical claim.
  5. History + places
    Scrollfunctions-as-attribute-inIcon← preserves-context-forMount Sinai / Saint Catherine’s Monastery
    Two-step navigation path, not a new direct historical claim.
  6. Materials + making
    Scrollfunctions-as-attribute-inIcon← can-formCeramic
    Two-step navigation path, not a new direct historical claim.
Decoder source trail

Sources supporting this profile.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Virgin Hodegetria (BZ.1946.14)
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text-reference-only; image reuse requires current Dumbarton Oaks rights review
Smarthistory
Icons, an introduction
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text-reference-only; image rights vary by credited work
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2 bounded direct results · 12 bounded two-step paths · 1 navigation theme

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Virgin HodegetriaScroll ←includes-attribute— Virgin Hodegetria · source-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-500.IconScroll —functions-as-attribute-in→ Icon · qualified-source-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-209.
Visible two-step paths

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  1. Scrollincludes-attributeVirgin HodegetriarepresentsVirgin Mary
    Two explicit edges; intermediate record remains visible.
  2. Scrollincludes-attributeVirgin HodegetriaincludesChrist
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  3. Scrollincludes-attributeVirgin Hodegetriaassociated-withConstantinople
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Connected record

functions-as-attribute-in
Icon
qualified-source-backed · Smarthistory
← includes-attribute
Virgin Hodegetria
source-backed · Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection

Source trail

Smarthistory
Icons, an introduction
Open source ↗
text-reference-only; image rights vary by credited work
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Arts of Byzantium
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text-reference-only; object image rights require per-record review

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