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Maureen Attali

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Maureen Attali @mauat.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
@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 »
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Maureen Attali @mauat.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
@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 (?)
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Maureen Attali @mauat.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
You are welcome. I love an obscure interpretation challenge!
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Maureen Attali @mauat.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
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.
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