2-673-489 - © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford/Heritage Images

Icon, Byzantine. Ivory panel; portrays the Virgin Hodegetria gesturing to the Christ Child who sits on her left arm, holding a scroll in his left hand and blessing with his right; the Hodegetria ('she who leads') was the most popular iconographic type of Virgin and Child. Dimensions: height: 17.3 cmwidth: 12 cm