Death and Burial of the Prophet Micah

ca. 1025-1050

23.6 cm 29.7 cm

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At the left, Micah is about to be pushed over a cliff at the order of King Jotham of Judah (ruled probably 740-736 BCE). At the right, two men have laid the prophet's dead body into a stone coffin. The elder one is raising his veiled hands to his chin as a sign of mourning.

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Greek Patriarchal Library of Alexandria, cod. 33 [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Léon Gruel (?), Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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