Another exclusive addition to our "Old World Civilizations" collection is the Limoges hand painted box of the statue of the Armenian hero  David of Sasun, in Yerevan, Armenia.
David of Sasun, a legendary Christian hero, in his defense against invaders from Egypt and Persia. The epic was based on oral tradition that presumably dates from the 8th to the 10th century; it was widely known from the 16th through the 19th century and was finally written down in 1873. It is composed in poetic lines of irregular length arranged into rhyme groups.
ITEM: ELDCCHET011
SIZE: 2 1/2"