St Maurice

This is a limewood statue depicting St Maurice, an officer of the Theban Legion from Egypt. The Roman emperor Maximian ordered the entire legion to be slaughtered because they refused to kill innocent Christians. The statue probably comes from an altarpiece. Maurice is usually depicted as a black saint, and here the face might originally have been painted black.本品为椴木雕刻的圣莫里斯（St. Maurice）像，其为来自埃及的底比斯军团（Theban Legion）军官。罗马皇帝马克西米安（Maximian）因该军团拒绝屠戮无辜基督徒，下令将整支军团处决。该雕像大概率原本属于一件祭坛装饰组雕（altarpiece）。莫里斯通常被塑造为黑人圣徒，此雕像的面部原本或许被施以黑色涂装。