Siffar da Nebukadnezzar Ya Gani

Rembrandt · 1655
National Gallery of Art, Washington

Wannan faranti ɗaya ne daga cikin ƙananan faranti huɗu da Rembrandt ya yi wa “Piedra gloriosa” (1655), wani littafin Sifaniyanci game da siffar mafarkin Nebukadnezzar, wanda maƙwabcinsa a Amsterdam, malamin Yahudawa (rabbi) kuma mai buga littattafai Menasseh ben Israel ya rubuta. Littafin ya bayyana mafarkin, saboda haka Rembrandt ya rubuta sunayen masarautu a jikin siffar kanta.

Siffar tana tsaye a kan tushe, hannuwanta a ƙugu, da “Babel” a kanta, “Graeci” a cikinta da “Romani” a ƙafa. Babban dutse yana zuwa da gudu daga dama yana bugun ƙafarta.

Daga rubutun

Babbar siffa mai kan zinariya da ƙafafun ƙarfe da yumɓu (Daniyel 2:31–33)

Dutsen da aka yanko “amma ba da hannun mutum ba” yana bugun ƙafafunta (Daniyel 2:34)

Na mai zanen kansa

Sunayen masarautu a rubuce a jiki, bisa littafin Menasseh ben Israel

Siffar a matsayin mutum sanye da gajeren siket, ba a nuna ta da ƙarafa ba — bugun baƙi da fari ne

Bayanai dalla-dalla

A kai

Ƙyallen kan yana karanta “Babel”.

A ciki

An rubuta “Graeci” a ƙetaren ciki.

A ƙafa

“Romani” ya gangara ta ƙafa ɗaya.

Dutsen

Babban dutse yana zuwa da gudu yana bugun ƙafar siffar.

Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch, 1606–1669. National Gallery of Art, Washington (Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.7208) · Etching, burin and drypoint · NGA Open Access: "Images of these works are available free of charge for any use, commercial or non-commercial, under Creative Commons Zero (CC0)." (NGA open data: published_images.csv openaccess = 1)

Ayoyin

Dan 2:31–35“Ya sarki, ka ga wata babbar siffa, mai girma, siffa ce mai haske, abar bantsoro tana tsaye a gabanka. An yi kan wannan siffa da zinariya zalla, ƙirjinta da kuma hannuwanta an yi su da azurfa, cikinta da kuma cinyarta da tagulla ne. An yi ƙafafun da ƙarfe, tafin ƙafafunta kuma an yi rabi da ƙarfe rabi kuma da yumɓu. A lokacin da kake dubawa, sai aka yanko wani dutse, amma ba da hannun mutum ba. Ya fāɗa a kan ƙafafun siffar na ƙarfen da aka haɗa da yumɓu aka kuma ragargaje su. Sai ƙarfen da yambun da tagulla da azurfan da kuma zinariyan suka ragargaje a lokaci ɗaya ya zama kamar ƙaiƙayi a masussuka a lokacin kaka. Sai iska ta kwashe su ta tafi, har ba a iya ganin ko alamarsu. Amma dutsen da ya fāɗo a siffar ya girke ya zama tsauni ya kuma cika dukan duniya.