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@middleages4educate.bsky.social for Imago Triomphator, an inscription from the Córdoba synagogue (14th c.), reading « Provisional sanctuary and abode for the Testimony completed by Yitzhak Moheb son of Mr. Ephraim Wadawa, in the year [50]75. So return, oh God hasten to return to Jerusalem »

17.04.2025 18:50 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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@middleages4educate.bsky.social For Imago Triumphator day 1 (image from the Later Roman empire), a 6th-century terracotta lamp from Carthage with a Christian figure with a cross stepping on a snake and standing on an overturned menorah. A rare late antique representation of religious polemics (?)

01.04.2025 22:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

You are welcome. I love an obscure interpretation challenge!

08.12.2023 19:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It was interpreted by Eugène Hucher as a scene from the Life of Domnulus, who was bishop of Le Mans in the 6th c. According to his Vita, a lord who had appropriated church properties had a vision of the Virgin Mary hitting him with a iron hammer and repented.

08.12.2023 18:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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