Page 9 – Terrence C. Smith

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Chartres, north side, center portal

JAMB FIGURES

Right:
• Isaiah - hold flowering stem, the "rod out of Jesse." Jessee beneath.
• Jeremiah - with Greek cross
• Simeon - testified of Christ at the Presentation at the Temple, holds the infant Christ.

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Chartres, north side, center portal

INNER ARCH

• Eighth archivolt: Creation and Fall [bottom to top]

Adam asleep in Eden

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†North side, lancets, left to right: True versus false sovereigns (restored)

• Window 145B - North side, near left lancet: King David standing over King Saul (the chosen king over the apostate king rejected by God, who dies via suicide in despair).

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Chartres, north side, right portal, archivolt

OUTER ARCH

• First archivolt: months with accompanying activities: February warms by fire, March prunes vines, April holds corn, May falcoln on fist
• Second archivolt: Aquarius, Pieces, Aries, Taurus

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