Ivory figure of St John The Evangelist

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The Hunt Museum
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Release Date
2021-11-25
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CC BY 4.0
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Material: [Ivory](http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300011857). Accession no: HCM 084. Current location: [The Hunt Museum](https://www.huntmuseum.com/), [Limerick](https://www.geonames.org/7778675/limerick-city.html). A [13th century AD](http://n2t.net/ark:/99152/p08m57h8zmq) figure of a man in ivory and polychrome with a wooden peg in the base. The figure is of St John. He is shown as a young man, dressed in long robes and holding a book in his hand. [More](https://www.huntmuseum.com/explore/item/2489d698-c3eb-3970-88dc-78fc0e5e651b/?s%3Devangelist&pos=1).