Wall painting from the Faras* Cathedral of Madonna and Child protecting a Nubian princess, re-erected in the Sudan National Museum in Khartoum. See Michalowski 1967, page 77.
Faras* is a major city in Lower Nubia. The site of the city, on the border between modern Egypt and Sudan at Wadi Halfa Salient, was flooded by Lake Nasser in the 1960s and is now permanently underwater.
