Ethiopian talismanic scroll Polychrome pigments on paper. Ethiopia, Amhara or Tigrinya people, 19th century. (Visible wear and accidents). 160 x 10 cm These personalized handwritten scrolls had protective and healing value for those who carried them. Their contents are a mixture of sacred images, prayers, and astral portraits. A comparable manuscript is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum (inv. no. 2017.680.3).

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