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The term "throne" is used both literally and metonymically in the Hebrew Bible.. As a symbol for kingship, the throne is seen as belonging to David, or to God Himself. In 1 Kings 1:37 Benaiah's blessing to Solomon was "may the LORD... make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David"; while in 1 Chronicles 29:23 we are told "Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king".
'Throne of Solomon') or Adur Gushnasp, is an archaeological site in West Azerbaijan, Iran dating back to Sasanian Empire. It lies midway between Urmia and Hamadan, very near the present-day town of Takab, and 400 km (250 mi) west of Tehran.
Qaṣr-i Abu Naṣr (Persian: قصر ابونصر, lit. Abu-Naṣr Palace), Qasre Abunasr, or Takht-e Sulayman (Persian: تخت سلیمان, lit.Throne of Solomon) is the site of an ancient settlement situated in city of Shiraz in the Fars province of Iran.
Takht-e-Sulaiman (Pashto: تخت سليمان, Balochi: تخت ء سلیمان; "Throne of Solomon") is a peak of the Sulaiman Mountains, located near the town of Darazinda in the Dera Ismail Khan Subdivision of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. [1] It is close to Dera Ismail Khan Subdivision's borders with both South Waziristan and Zhob, Balochistan.
The Judgement of Solomon by Poussin offers just as perfect details; but it is so well-known a treatment that any educated viewer can take pleasure in devoping them for himself. Nevertheless, we observe the proud, calm and almost symmetrical pose of Solomon, seated on his throne, in the middle of the painting.
The episode is one of the most well known that illustrates the famed "wisdom of Solomon". The scene takes place in a very dark interior, where the figures are dimly illuminated, in a typical chiaroscuro. Solomon, seated on his throne, is dressed in red and wears his small crown upon a turban. The dead child lies at his feet.
Fresco of the Judgment of Solomon, Frauenberg, Styria Sculpture given either to Pietro Lamberti or to Nanni di Bartolo. It stands at the corner of the Doge's Palace in Venice (Italy), next to Porta della Carta. The Judgement of Solomon is a story from the Hebrew Bible in which Solomon ruled between two women who both claimed to be the mother of ...
An enamel plaque on the processional Cross of Mathilde, showing an image of the donor together with Mary, Seat of Wisdom. This type of Madonna image is based on the Byzantine prototype of the Chora tou Achoretou ("Container of the Uncontainable"), [5] an epithet mentioned in the Acathist Hymn and present in the Greek East by the early 11th century, when the Byzantine-inspired enamels were made ...