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The Ophidian Iconography Quest (Mundus Vetus & Mundus Novus, 2004 - present) |
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| Figure EUR-ita-086. Bishop's crosier with its foliated crook terminating with a snake's head, the iconographic and liturgical phenomenon, probably related to the subject, referred to in the Bible (Old Testament), NRSV as follows: ◆ "Then Moses answered, “But suppose they do not believe me or listen to me, but say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you.’” The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff [מַטֶּה, mattah = "rod/branch/tribe" in Hebrew].” And he said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw the staff on the ground, and it became a snake [נָחָשׁ, nahash = "snake/serpent" in Hebrew]; and Moses drew back from it. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Reach out your hand, and seize it by the tail” - so he reached out his hand and grasped it, and it became a staff in his hand - “so that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”" (Exodus 4: 1-5) and ◆ "The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “Speak to the Israelites, and get twelve staffs from them, one for each ancestral house, from all the leaders of their ancestral houses. Write each man’s name on his staff, and write Aaron’s name on the staff of Levi. For there shall be one staff for the head of each ancestral house. Place them in the tent of meeting before the covenant, where I meet with you. And the staff of the man whom I choose shall sprout; thus I will put a stop to the complaints of the Israelites that they continually make against you.” Moses spoke to the Israelites; and all their leaders gave him staffs, one for each leader, according to their ancestral houses, twelve staffs; and the staff of Aaron was among theirs. So Moses placed the staffs before the Lord in the tent of the covenant. When Moses went into the tent of the covenant on the next day, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted. It put forth buds, produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds. Then Moses brought out all the staffs from before the Lord to all the Israelites; and they looked, and each man took his staff. And the Lord said to Moses, “Put back the staff of Aaron before the covenant, to be kept as a warning to rebels, so that you may make an end of their complaints against me, or else they will die.” Moses did so; just as the Lord commanded him, so he did." (Numbers 17: 1-11). |
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| Marble (?) | Low relief (Tombstone, carved decoration, detail, in situ) |
Unknown | TBD | Caelian Hill, Rome, Lazio, Central Italy |
Chiesa di San Gre- gorio Magno al Monte Celio (Church of Saint Gregory the Great at the Caelian Hill) |
| Source-Image(s): The image(s) is/are from Alexei Alexeev's personal photo archive (The First Italian Expedition, 29 March - 25 April 2015). All artefacts will be available for viewing in the Compendium's respective volumes after the completion of the fully integrated iconographic database. Some of the artefacts will be represented by several figures (offering a general view and details). |
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