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The Ophidian Iconography Quest (Mundus Vetus & Mundus Novus, 2004 - present) |
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| Figure EUR-vat-067. Creation of Eve from the rib of Adam, lying on the ground, the subject referred to in the Bible (Old Testament), NRSV as follows: ◆ "Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.” ⟨...⟩ So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman [נָשִׁים, ishshah = "women/womankind" in Hebrew], for out of Man this one was taken.” Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed." (Genesis 2: 18, 21-25); assigning of the work duties to Adam and Eve, the subject referred to in the Bible (Old Testament), NRSV as follows: ◆ "And to the man he [Lord God] said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”" (Genesis 3: 17-19); Nahash (Serpent of the Garden of Eden) entwining the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Paradise and holding the fruit in its mouth. |
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| White marble | High relief (Two Testaments/ Trinity/Dogmatic Sarcophagus, chest, front panel, upper register, left side, carved decoration, detail) |
Unknown | Roman Imperial/ Early Christian, the age of Constantine the Great (r. 306-337 AD) and his succes-sors, 320-350 AD |
Foundations of the baldachin of Basilica Papale di San Paolo fuori le Mura, Rome, Lazio, Central Italy | Musei Vaticani (Mu-seo Pio Cristiano), Vatican, Inventory № 31427 |
| Source-Image(s): The image(s) is/are from Alexei Alexeev's personal photo archive (The First Vatican 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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