Data Artem
Capital: Capital 3 - Choir (Notre-Dame-du-Port)
Building Name
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Notre-Dame-du-Port
Location
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Choir
Capital
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3
Subject
:
Punishment of usurer
Description
:
Capital at south side entry to ambulatory
On the three faces of the capital is a representation of the punishment of the usuer. On the principal face a kneeling nude figure is between two demons, who are pulling on a cord around the nude figure's neck. A banderole stretches across the three faces.
Reference
:
The latin is clumsy and incorrect: prisist in place of periisti, ussura for usura. The last three letters are enigmatic. The commentary that accompanies this scene is almost identical to that which identifies an analogous scene at Saint-Julien de Brioude.
Corpus Ref.
:
vol. 18, Allier, Cantal, Loire, Haute-Loire, Puy-de-Dôme, 195
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3 - Choir
Face:Inscription: MILLE ARTIFEX SCRIPSIT TU PRISIST; USSURA S.R.E.Translation The master of a thousand [tricks] wrote: you perished through usury.
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