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Epigonation
Sign in to saveAlso known as konk'er, palitza
thumb|Embroidered palitza (photograph c. 1911 by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii). thumb|Fresco of St [[Gregory the Illuminator wearing a gold epigonation (the half-visible rhombus behind the Omophorion) embroidered with an icon (14th century, Mistra).]] The epigonation (Greek: , literally meaning "over the knee"), or pálitsa (Russian: , "club"), is a vestment used in some Eastern Christian churches.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- Liturgical vestments and insignia
- Country
- Estonia
- Image
- Epigonation (1911).jpg
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- Commons category
- Epigonation
- used by
- Greek Orthodoxy
- native label
- набедреник
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