250324 - Large Olive Wooden 18th Century Ethiopian Coptic hand Cross - Ethiopia

Extremely Rare Large Olive wood 18th century Ethiopian Coptic Hand Cross from the orthodox coptic Church. 

This wooden cross measures approximately 67 cm high and and 16 cm wide. 

This cross is more then 250 years old and very nice old patina. 

This Coptic olive wooden cross is dated from the mid of the 18th century and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. 

Extremely rare Large and beautiful crucifix from Ethiopia. It is carved from wood and shows a beautiful patina of use. In addition, it still has the original paint. The two sides have different designs, including square crosses that are characteristic of Ethiopian religious symbolism. The central part of this crucifix was formerly reinforced with a nailed metal plate.

The Ethiopian church the cross is not only a symbol for Christi suffering and death, is more importantly still its meaning than indications of the resurrection. The cross often steps a releasing and before the bad one protecting effect into ethiopian representations to the place of the crucifixion and expresses not only admiration for the dead Christ, but fulfilled as icon also. This function is expressed clearly in the prayer with the designation " The protective wall of the Crosses ". The multiplicity process crosses carried by priests with services and religious meetings produces atmosphere of the sacralen and the release and points to the believer symbolically its life way. Process crosses are manufactured in the wax fuse procedure.