The writer of Matthew fails to differentiate the wise men from
one another in the second chapter of that book in the Bible.
(Matthew chapter 2 contains the Christmas story.)
This ancient stone carving in the Cathedral of Autun
shows us an angel waking the the wise men
who are stacked vertically as though a single entity.
Is this the sculptor’s tongue-in-cheek jibe at
Matthew’s en masse literary treatment of them?