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Museum Description: “Portrait, perhaps of a priest, in encaustic on limewood: the panel is cracked through the right side from the upper edge to the subject's proper left ear. A row of four nail holes indicative of reuse, or perhaps of attachment to…

This mosaic is in the arch above the Door of Sant'Alipio, the left-most door on the west side of San Marco. It shows the translation of the body of the deceased saint.