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Icon of Christ and Abbot Mena
8th-century Coptic painting
The Icon of Christ and Abbot Mena (French: L'Icône du Christ et de l'Abbé Ménas) a Coptic painting which is now in the Louvre museum, in Paris.[1] The icon is an encaustic painting on wood and was brought from the Apollo monastery in Bawit, Egypt. The icon measures about 57 by 57 centimetres (22.4 by 22.4 inches) and is 2 centimetres (0.79 inches) thick.[1] The icon has been damaged over the years with some of the pigment missing and it has two vertical cracks running through the image, but it can still be readily made out.[1]