the cycle in San Justo as compared to the cycle in the Bible ofAvila, it is evident that they

do not have many similarities.

 The next scene on folio CCCXXIIII v is the Three Maries at the Tomb (Fig. 58).

This episode can also be found in the Antiphonary of Leon (Fol. 187).183 However there

are scarcely any similarities between the representation as envisioned by the artist in the

Antiphonary of Leon and that of the Master of the Cycle of the Life andPa~ssion of Christ

in the Bible ofAvila. In terms of iconography I have not found a good example that the

Master of the Cycle of the Life andPa~ssion of Christ could have used as his source. Yet

there are some conceptual examples of the Three Maries at the Tomb that have some of

the most important iconographic and stylistic elements found in the Bible ofAvila. In

terms of iconography the example that has some iconographic similarity is the relief

sculpture in the cloister of Santo Domingo de Silos (Burgos), dated to the last third of the

11Ith century (Fig. 59).184 The relief panel in Santo Domingo represents the conflation of

the Entombment and the Three Maries at the Tomb.ls The composition has been divided

into three registers. The lid of the sarcophagus divides the first and second registers, and

the upper register represents the Three Maries. The action takes place underneath an arch

with decorative capitals--in the Bible ofAvila there are three arches instead of one. The

Three Maries have ointment j ars in their covered hands. The first Mary points towards


183 Yarza Luaces, J., Iconograpia de la2~iniatura Ca;stellano-Leonesa,~~11~11~~1 1973, pp. 31-32.
Yarza Luaces also mentions that this scene was widely reproduced as a substitute for the
Resurrection, which was not depicted until the 13th century.

184 Palacios, M., Yarza Luaces, J., y Torres, R., El~ona~sterio de Santo Domingo de
Silos, 1989, p. 17.

 I Palacios, M., Yarza Luaces, J., y Torres, R., El~ona~sterio de Santo Domingo de
Silos, 1989, p. 23.