Iconography

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Old Testament / Exodus / The Giving of the Law on Sinai / God gives Moses the tablets of the Law (Exod. 31:18; cf. Exod. 24:12)
Old Testament / 4 Kings (A.V. II Kings) / Assumption of Elias and first miracles of Eliseus (4 Kings 2) / Assumption of Elias (4 Kings 2:11) / Without Elias or Eliseus handling the mantle

Further details

right-hand side of a sarcophagus with the Traditio Legis, at the left Assumption of Elias (beneath the chariot a personification of the Jordan), at the right Moses receiving the tablets of the Law

Artist or creator

Early Christian

Date

4th century (late)

Location

Paris, Musée du Louvre (inv. MR 688 (Ma 2980))

Associated persons

Ian Jones (The Warburg Institute) (Photographer (analogue))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Christern-Briesenick, Repertorium der Christlich-Antiken Sarkophage, 3: Frankreich, Algerien, Tunesien, Mainz am Rhein 2003, pp. 199-201, no. 428, plate 103,1-3

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