Tag: Maxwell Ashby Armfield

01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Maxwell Ashby Armfield’s Salome with the head of St John the Baptist, with Footnotes #196

Aug 14, 2023

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Estimate for GBP 15,000 – GBP 25,000 in Jul 2022 Salome was the daughter of Herod II and Herodias. She is infamous for demanding and receiving the head of John the Baptist, according to the New Testament. According to Flavius Josephus’s Jewish Antiquities, Salome was first married to Philip the Tetrarch of Ituraea and Trakonitis. After…