Palmesel with Child

New Cathedral, Salamanca, Spain

The ass is on a wooden platform, suggesting that it is used in Palm Sunday processions, but this is a variation on the Palmesel type, with a child riding with Jesus as another child points to them. The three prongs of Jesus' halo are bunched together, perhaps not intentionally.

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Photographed at the cathedral by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.