Diptych with the two Maries at the Holy Sepulchre

The tablet has a markedly vertical layout and is divided into two scenes: above, two guards sleep opposite the entrance to the Holy Sepulchre, identifiable by its characteristic round shape; below, two Pious Women kneel in front of a figure with a halo, probably the newly resurrected Christ. The scene takes place in front of the open door of the Sepulchre on which are carved some reliefs, among which can be distinguished the Resurrection of Lazarus. At the corners of the upper part are the zoomorphic symbols of the evangelists Luke and Matthew, which would probably have matched those of the other two, on another tablet which would have completed the diptych. On the inner part of the valve is a series of names, written in a Late Antique script, difficult to read, undoubtedly connected to an ancient place of conservation, where the tablet was used in the context of ecclesiastical celebrations.
The piece is well known for its high stylistic quality, visible in the softness of the carving, and for the iconographic solutions, very innovative for its time (it is one of the oldest known depictions of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem).