# Saint Luke and the Ox

The scene is fragmentary: the evangelist has lost his left hand and his lectern. The head of the ox (fragment II C 140) was found separately from the main fragment on June 12, 1963.

In Christian symbolism, the ox can represent the sacrifice of Jesus.

Ivory Plaque: Saint Luke and the Ox
Valley of the Meuse, between 1150 and 1200
Louvre Museum, inv. OA 6331
Photo © Marc Gil