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Thanks. I remember struggling with this depiction. I think the "experts"
take the object in her left hand to be the tables of the law in some
form (on a diptych?), although the nice closeup image on the site you
referenced seems to show curling or the like on the left of the object,
held down by her finger (it is less clear what to make of the right
side), and the object also has angular features at the bottom (and at
the lower right corner), which might be consistent with a scroll folded
to imitate two tablets or a notebook/diptych with a flap on the left, to
hold it closed?. Hard to know what to make of it! See the excellent
closeup on the site you referenced, at
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/strasbourg/syndet2.jpg
Bob
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> I looked too rapidly. In her right, Synagogue holds a broken spear.
> MG
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> The (in)famous statue of the Synagogue at Notre-Dame de Strasbourg *seems* to be holding a horizontal document:
> http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/strasbourg/strasbourg.html
> In her left hand she holds a page that curls on both ends and in her right, it looks like a Torah but I can't make out exactly what it is. In any case, the pictures are pretty :-))
> MG
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