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Title	the dedication of the golden statue: in the presence of King Nebuchadnezzar, trumpets are blown and all the people surrounding the image fall on their knees, after the furnace has been heated seven times more, the three Hebrews are bound and thrown into the fire; their executioners are burnt by the flames, to his astonishment King Nebuchadnezzar sees four men (one of them usually represented as an angel) in the furnace; the king commands them to come forth, King Nebuchadnezzar's madness: long-haired, he creeps on all fours, eating grass, during Belshazzar's banquet a hand appears and writes on the wall (MENE, MENE, TEKEL and PARSIN (UPHARSIN)); King Belshazzar is frightened, Daniel is liberated from the lion's den ~ King Darius, third vision of Daniel (Daniel 9): the archangel Gabriel explains to Daniel the meaning of the 'seventy weeks'
Type	Illustration
Sizes	98x220
Material	Copper engraving
Colour	Black
Artist	Borcht, Pieter van der
Oldest appearance in Biblia Sacra	1702
Iconclass	71P132,71P133,71P134,71P1441,71P22,71P344,71P53
Iconclass description	the dedication of the golden statue: in the presence of King Nebuchadnezzar, trumpets are blown and all the people surrounding the image fall on their knees, after the furnace has been heated seven times more, the three Hebrews are bound and thrown into the fire; their executioners are burnt by the flames, to his astonishment King Nebuchadnezzar sees four men (one of them usually represented as an angel) in the furnace; the king commands them to come forth, King Nebuchadnezzar's madness: long-haired, he creeps on all fours, eating grass, during Belshazzar's banquet a hand appears and writes on the wall (MENE, MENE, TEKEL and PARSIN (UPHARSIN)); King Belshazzar is frightened, Daniel is liberated from the lion's den ~ King Darius, third vision of Daniel (Daniel 9): the archangel Gabriel explains to Daniel the meaning of the 'seventy weeks'
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