unknown artist abbot st mena with christ copticOn the right is a painting which comes from the monastery of Bawit in Middle Egypt. Dated to the late 6th or early 7th century, it represents Christ on the right, and Abbot Mena, the superior of the monastery at the time. The painting captured the friendship between God and man in a beautiful way.

The abbot holds a scroll in his left hand; this may have contained the rules of his monastery.