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Title anyone who is bitten by a snake is cured by looking at the brazen serpent; the serpent (or dragon) is usually depicted on a tau-shaped cross or on a pillar, when the people complain again about the food, God sends poisonous snakes; many die of snake-bites ~ book of Numbers
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Oldest appearance in Biblia Sacra 1548
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Iconclass description anyone who is bitten by a snake is cured by looking at the brazen serpent; the serpent (or dragon) is usually depicted on a tau-shaped cross or on a pillar, when the people complain again about the food, God sends poisonous snakes; many die of snake-bites ~ book of Numbers
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Amsterdam UB 1154 A 3 (Numbers) 1 L6r
Show scan: Amsterdam UB 1154 A 3 (Numbers) vol.1 p.L6r
Show edition: 1548.B.dut.JvG.a

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