On the Hypothetical Model of Childbearing Iconography in the Octateuchs
Abstract
The present study proposes to see the childbearing iconography in the Octateuchs as a two-fold scheme depicting a continuous birth narrative. It is suggested that this iconography almost certainly drew specifically on a manuscript of Soranus’ Gynaikeia, most likely illuminated, and that the copyist abridged the full iconographic formulae-both that of giving birth and that of the post birth phases-to its most essential elements, without detracting from the legibility of the scene.
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MEYER, M. (2011). On the Hypothetical Model of Childbearing Iconography in the Octateuchs. Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, 26, 311–318. https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.449
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