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By the Rivers of Babylon (Khludov Psalter)

A page from the Khludov Psalter illustrating Psalm 137, the exiles weeping by the rivers of Babylon, their harps hung on the willows as they remember Zion (Psalms 137). A tempera illumination on parchment from the Byzantine Khludov Psalter (c. 850).

By the Rivers of Babylon (Khludov Psalter) by Master of the Khludov Psalter depicting Psalms 137:1
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Depicted passages

Psalms 137:1-4Primary
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About Master of the Khludov Psalter

Byzantine

Anonymous 9th-century Byzantine illuminator (or workshop) responsible for the Khludov Psalter, a marginal psalter containing some of the most polemical iconophile imagery surviving from the Iconoclast Controversy.

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