2021
ST6316 : Sherborne - Abbey - Commandments 1 to 4
taken 2 years ago, near to Sherborne, Dorset, England
Sherborne - Abbey - Commandments 1 to 4
Two worded wall paintings face each other across the nave of Sherborne Abbey bearing the ten commandments - this one has the first four, numbered here as I, II, III and IIII (Clocks for example tend to use IIII rather than IV which is the usual way to show 4 in Roman Numerals. However, it is likely that the Romans themselves didn't use subtraction, so 4 would have been IIII and 9 would have been VIIII - but this latter seems never to be the case in post-Roman times with IX always being favoured, resulting in something of a mismatch.)
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ST6316 : Sherborne - Abbey - Commandments 5 to 10 for numbers 5 - 10.
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