Orans,
or orant (Lat., lit. “praying”), the name given to the early Christian posture of prayer: the body upright and frontal, and the open hands lifted to shoulder height to either side. Used to represent piety on many 3rd-C. pagan and Christian sarcophagi, the posture was adopted for innumerable catacomb figures, whether tomb owners or Old Testament characters (e.g., ... ...
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