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BLOODY WOMEN AND
BLOODY SPACES
by Joan R. Branham

Figure 1. Model
of Jewish Temple built by Herod in Jerusalem, first century bce. Click
on image to return to article.
Credit:
Alec Gerrard/Ritmeyer Archeological Design

Figure
2. Plan of
courtyards in Jerusalem Temple, first century bce. Click
on image to return to article.
Credit:
Leen Ritmeyer/Ritmeyer Archeological Design

Figure
3. Aerial
view of Jerusalem Temple model showing Court of the Women,
Israelites, and Priests (with sacrificial altar), first century bce. Click
on image to return to article.
Credit:
Alec Gerrard/Ritmeyer Archeological Design

Figure
4. Fresco of
Christ healing the Woman with an Issue of Blood. Catacomb of
Saints Pietro e Marcellino, late third century, Rome. Click
on image to return to article.
Credit:
Scala/Art Resource

Figure
5. Fresco of
female figure holding chalice in the Agape Feast. Catacomb of
Saints Pietro e Marcellino. Click
on image to return to article.
Credit:
Pontifica
Commissione di Archeologia Sacra

Figure
6. Altar
area in the
apse of the Basilica of San vitale, c. 547. Ravenna, Italy. Click
on image to return to article.
Credit:
alinari/Art
Resource

Figure
7. Justinian
holding Eucharistic bread platter. Click
on image to return to article.
Credit:
alinari/Art
Resource

Figure
8. The
Empress Theodora holding Eucharistic wine chalice and accompanied by
her court. Click
on image to return to article.
Credit:
alinari/Art
Resource

Figure
9. Detail of
mosaic showing the Jerusalem Temple, its burning altar, and the Holy
of Holies, Theotokos Chapel, Mount Nebo. Click
on image to return to article.
Credit:
After Saller, by permission franciscan Press

Figure
10. Altar
area with mosaic of sacrificial animals approaching the Jerusalem
Temple, Theotokos Chapel, Mount Nebo, 597. Click
on image to return to article.
Credit:
After Saller, by permission franciscan Press

Figure
11. The
Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple. Fourteenth-century
mosaic, inner narthex, third bay, vault, Kariye Djami, Istanbul,
Turkey. Click
on image to return to article.
Credit:
Dumbarton
Oaks, Washington, D.C./Byzantine Photograph and Fieldwork Archives

Figure
12. Christ
healing Woman with Issue of Blood. Fourteenth-century mosaic,
inner narthex, south bay, Kariye Djami, Istanbul, Turkey. Click
on image to return to article.
Credit:
Dumbarton
Oaks, Washington, D.C./Byzantine Photograph and Fieldwork Archives

Figure
13. Birth of
Eve from Adam and Birth of Chalice-Bearing Church from Christ.
illuminated manuscript, French Moralized Bible (Vienna Codex 2554),
thirteenth century. Click
on image to return to article.
Credit:
Österreichische
Nationalbibliothek, Wien
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