Berat, Epitaphe de Gllavenice
Looks like just another ancient artwork but when we go to Wikipedia (slightly abridged version): “The Epitaph of Gllavenica is a 14th-century epitaph, written on a shroud made of silk, linen and gold, symboliz(ing) the burial cloth of Christ, used in Orthodox Good Friday’s processions. The Epitaph represents the dead Christ lying on a linen, Saint Mary, John, other Four Evangelists, prophets and angels with spread wings. It was commissioned by the Albanian ruler Gjergj Arianiti in 1373.In 1994, the shroud was stolen from the National Historical Museum of Albania in Tirana. In 2005 an international symposium assessed that the shroud should be restaured for the amount of 25-50k Euros because it risks to be irreparably deteriorated and damaged from the lights of the Albanian National Museum.” So it was stolen and then found? In any event, this is an older card predating that “theft”. Unused. Grade: 1