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Weltchronik
Germany, Regensburg, ca. 1360
MS M.769 fol. 241v

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Nebuchadnezzar: hewn by Evilmerodach -- Evilmerodach, crowned, gesturing with right hand, holding scepter with left hand, stands at end of table on which is headless body Nebuchadnezzar, hewn and bleeding. Two of three men behind the table hold axes; the third the third raises right hand toward one of two flying birds with flesh in beaks. He holds severed hand with his left hand.



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