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Capital: Capital 6 - Narthex (Sainte-Marie-Madeleine)

Building Name
:
Sainte-Marie-Madeleine  
Location
:
Narthex
Capital
:
6
Subject
:
King David
Description
:
Narthex; tribune (in musée lapidaire c112, capital in northern tribune, first bay west) Identification on impost
Reference
:
A short inscription is located above an arcade under which there is a person in a tower or on a wall. A modern capital is in place in the tribue represents David watching Bathsheba taking a bath. On the central face the king proclaims his affections to Bathsheba. On the right side of the capital, Uriah leaves for war on the king's orders. Listed in Lydwine Saulnier and Neil Stratford's La sculpture oubliée de Vézelay (Droz, 1984), pp 93-4. Inv. Meunier n° 34; Inv. Leboeuf n° 34.
Corpus Ref.
:
vol. 21 Yonne, 238
  
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