pōmata

religious textile design

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In mandyas
…bishop’s mandyas is decorated with pōmata (Greek: “beverages”), richly embroidered squares of material. Red and white stripes called potamoi (Greek: “rivers”) flow out from the squares. The pōmata symbolize the New and Old Testaments, the sources of the doctrine that the bishop “pours out” on his congregation.
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