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Building: Saint-Sardos (Saint-Sardos, FR)

Building Name
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Saint-Sardos
Place Name
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Saint-Sardos
Country
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France
Monastic Order
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Latitude
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43.899983
Longitude
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1.134344
  
  •   Nave Capital 1
    Description: west side, south wall No figure
    Reference: The traditional interpretation views this work as a Temptation and sees the inscription as an artist signature. However, a better hypothessis proposed by M. Henri Renou, a photothécaire at C.E.S.C.M., and taken up by M. Pierre Dubourg-Noves suggests that the inscription designates the prophet Daniel. In fact, the figure to the left holds a ball and throws tar pellets of fat and hair to the dragon, puncturing the dragon. This iconography is found without an inscription in the crypts from Hagetmau, to Mas-d'Agenais, and perhaps the western portal at Saint-Vincent-de-Pertignas, according to Mll. A.-M. Labit à Saint-Pierre-de-Quittimont. Dates to 12th cent.
     Face: 
    DANI + / HELIS:
    HEL refers to God in Hebrew.
    No images.