# Head of Isaac

The young Isaac's head is pressed against the side of a figure holding him by the hair. This detail refers to a scene that is very common in religious iconography. Although the depiction is very fragmentary, the presence of a hand holding a juvenile figure by the hair allowed for the identification and comparison with another fragment of a head.

This iconography can also be found, for example, at the portal of the Sainte-Marie Abbey of Souillac, around 1140:

Sacrifice of Isaac (detail): Abraham grasping his son's hair
Around 1140, Souillac
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