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Title:David is Anointed and Affirmed as King
Notes:From the Yale Gilman collection, reworked by Marsyas. A short essay on the artistic and spiritual meaning of this artwork is available from The Visual Commentary on Scripture, https://thevcs.org/anointing-david/gods-saving-hand-history.
Date:3rd century
Building:Dura Europos
Object/Function:Mural
City/Town:Salhiyé
Country:Syria
Scripture:Samuel II, 5:1-5, 9-10
Samuel I, 16:1-13
Person as Subject:David, King of Israel (Biblical figure)
Lectionary links:BProp09
ALent04
General Subject:Anointing of David
Visual Commentary on Scripture
Elders
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Attribution:David is Anointed and Affirmed as King, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=58432 [retrieved January 2, 2025]. Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dura_Synagogue_WC3_David_anointed_by_Samuel.jpg.
Record Number:58432 Last Updated: 2021-09-18 16:00:33 Record Created: 2021-02-09 16:29:45
Institution:Vanderbilt University Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition