A small portable icon painted on wood, sized to fit in a pilgrim’s palm or rest on a traveler’s shelf. Soldiers, wanderers, and pious folk carry these beneath the cloth at the chest or pack them among their gear for private devotion. The image—a saint, a god, or a spirit—is finished in simple pigment on a hand-sawn plank; with use and prayer, the wood darkens and the face grows sacred to its keeper.
Icon, religious, wood, sm
Portable palm-sized icon for pilgrims and soldiers; kept at chest or shelf.