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Conques Last Judgment TympanumDetail: Figures to Abraham's left
To Abraham's left (our right) in the bottom register stand four haloed figures. A booklet sold in the church suggests that they are prophets and prophetesses. There are indeed several noted prophetesses in the Old Testament, such as Deborah and Miriam. But it is hard to see why, iconographically, one is expected to read the two pairs as prophets / prophetesses. The objects held by the women appear to be either codices or small boxes, while the men carry rolled-up scrolls, one of them pointing to his scroll. Scroll-vs.-codex would not seem to be indicative of prophet-vs.-prophetess.