A bearded man with a cloth draped over his head turns to the right and gazes upward. He holds a gently sloping book between the long fingers of his proper left hand and a metallic censer suspended by three chains from the fingers of his proper right. This vessel identifies the ecclesiastical character of the figure, whose simple garb, with no parallel in Church usage, sets him in antiquity. The presence of the censer recalls the tradition of depicting the first high priest, Aaron, and such an identification would be consistent with the figure’s reverent heavenward gaze. However, other attributes by which Aaron was traditionally identified are missing—the turban (or mitre), the ephod (a rectangular breastplate set with gemstones) or the budding rod—and for this reason the figure was distinguished only as a priest. But this association is unlikely, as there is no iconographic tradition for portrait-like depictions of anonymous priests. It is more likely that the draped cloth was intended to evoke Aaron’s head covering. The identity of the figure could have been likewise clarified by being paired with a depiction of Moses as part of a larger decorative scheme for a church.