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Historical Archive: Museum of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Belgrade Epitaphios of King Stefan Uroš II Milutin (reg. 1282-1321) liturgical cloth with the dead body of Christ in the tomb embroidery Serbia c.1300; velvet border sixteenth century silk, velvet, gold and silver wire, silk and silver thread 143.5 x 72 cm (56.5 x 28.37 inches), with border 210 x 132 cm (82.62 x 52 inches) Slavonic inscription: Remember, O God, the soul of your servant Milutin Uroš inventory no. 4660 Relic shroud, encomium to the martyr Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović (only last image on page) Serbia, 1402, with Slavonic inscription embroidery commissioned (made?) by the nun Efimiya (Jelena Mrnjavčević, c.1349-after 1405) gold and silver thread on silk, 67 x 49 cm epitaphios, full with person for scale without later border upper part of Christ and inscription upper inscription: IC XC upper inscription: XC upper left seraph upper right seraph Christ: bust Christ: face Christ: torso and arms Christ: bent arm with elbow Christ: lower torso with navel Christ: simulated cloth over hips and upper legs Christ: hands and simulated cloth simulated cloth, upper right border Christ: hands Christ: thumb and arm simulated cloth: cross in circle simulated cloth: lower left border simulated cloth: lower left corner inside border Christ: legs and feet upper left angel center right angel with inscription AGIOS (holy) center right angel: cloth over hands center inscription AGIOS, stars, head of center right angel decorative motif by center right angel AGIOS, stars, cross in circle between center and lower right angels lower right angel lower right angel: face lower right angel: neck and torso cross in circle by head of lower right angel lower left angel: bust decorative motif by lower right angel cross in circle by hand of lower right angel bottom part of epitaphios inscription for King Stefan Uroš II Milutin inscription for Stefan Uroš Milutin, center lower right corner of epitaphios, inside later border velvet border, 16th c. Efimiya, embroidered shroud for relics of St. Lazar, 1402