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Hebrew in the Painting is wrong...

Any ideas how to indicate in the article that the last letter (the one being drawn) is not correct? The vertical stroke should come from the right hand side of the letter (as a final Nun), not the center (which would be a Zayin).Naraht (talk) 16:27, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think it is you who are wrong. In both the nun and the zayin, the vertical stroke comes from the middle of the horizontal roof. Debresser (talk) 17:16, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Look at he:נ, only one comes close to coming from the middle and that is the one with the tagin, which the Final Nun in the images certainly does not have.Naraht (talk) 19:25, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The zayin catched my eye as well. It's definitley not a final nun. A source which backs up your observation: [1]. Gugganij (talk) 19:29, 29 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Rembrandt-Belsazar.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on August 23, 2018. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2018-08-23. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 02:35, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Belshazzar's Feast is an oil painting completed by the Dutch artist Rembrandt in 1635. Drawing on the Biblical Book of Daniel, it depicts the Neo-Babylonian king Belshazzar holding a feast using sacred vessels looted from the Temple in Jerusalem; God, angered by this blasphemy, has inscribed the following writing on the wall: "God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting; your kingdom is given to the Medes and Persians". This painting, which has been seen as Rembrandt's attempt to establish himself as a painter of large, baroque history paintings, is in the National Gallery, London.Painting: Rembrandt

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