(photo on external web page)

	Iconography
	RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
	Life of Christ
	→ Passion → Crucifixion → Single cross → With soldiers, but without centurion's conversion → Christ's side being pierced, vinegar not offered
	Typology and Prophecy
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Manuscripts → Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Cod.theol.et phil.fol.122, part 2 (Elchingen, Swabia, 1459)
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 25: The dead Christ mocked and pierced with a lance → 25a: The crucified Christ mocked by the Jews → All images
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 25: The dead Christ mocked and pierced with a lance → 25a: The crucified Christ mocked by the Jews → Variant: A soldier piercing Christ's side, without Mary or John
	→ Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament → 2 Kings → 2 Kings 18:14-15: Absalom is attacked first with three spears and then with swords → Type for the Crucifixion (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for the mocking of Christ on the Cross)
	→ Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament → 2 Kings → 2 Kings 6:15-16, 20-22: David dances before the Ark of the Covenant and is rebuked by his wife Michol → Type for the Crucifixion (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for the mocking of Christ on the Cross)
	→ Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ → Crucifixion → with Evilmerodach cutting the dead body of his father Nabuchodonosor into 300 parts (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for the Mocking of Christ on the Cross)
	→ Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ → Crucifixion → with 2 Kings 18:14-15: Absalom is attacked first with three spears and then with swords (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for the Mocking of Christ on the Cross)
	→ Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ → Crucifixion → with 2 Kings 6:15-16, 20-22: David dances before the Ark of the Covenant and is rebuked by his wife Michol (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for the Mocking of the Dead Christ)
	→ Non-biblical narratives treated as Types → Evil-Merodach cuts the body of Evil-Merodach into 300 parts → Type for the Crucifixion (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for the Mocking of Christ on the Cross)

	Further details
	ARTIST/CREATOR
	Elchingen (Swabia)
	DATE
	1459
	LOCATION
	Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek → Cod.theol.et phil.fol.122, fol. 75v
	TEXT/BOOK/DOCUMENT (SOURCE OF PHOTO)
	Speculum humanae salvationis

	Acknowledgements
	Images on external web-page, kindly provided by the Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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