This capital shows a key episode of the Book of Revelations, where the devil is chained and then loosed before being destroyed.
The capital is identified by the inscribed labels within the compositions.
Biblical source: Revelations 20:1-3 and Revelations 20:7-10.

Inscribed: The ancient serpent and the devil. Saint Michael. The Pit of the Abyss. Gog and Magog.

South Face inscribed: SANCTVS : MICHAEL

East View: The devil chained.
Inscription:SERPENS ANTICVS : QVI : EST DIABOLVS

West View: The devil unchained.
Inscribed: PVTEVS : ABISSI GOLIAS

North View: Og and Magog
Inscribed: OG ET MAGOG

DETAILS

Detail: South view, the Angel with the chain.

Related capitals:

Book of Revelations Capitals:
Capital 11: Symbols of the Evangelists
Capital 15: Vision of John the Evangelist
Capital 39: Saint Michael fights the dragon
Capital 51: Evangelists with Symbolic Beast's Heads
Capital 63: Grotesque Bowmen

Dragons and Beasts: 28, 29, 66, 69, 72

Revelations 20:1-3:

1Then I saw an angel coming down from Heaven, holding in his hand the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain.
2And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,
3and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years were ended. After that he must be loosed for a little while.


Revelations 20:7-10

7And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be loosed from his prison
8and will come out to deceive the nations which are at the four corners of the earth, that is, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea.
9And they marched up over the broad earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city; but fire came down from heaven and consumed them,
10and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulphur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.


The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Revised Standard Version.
Inscriptions based on Robert Favereau, Jean Michaud, and Bernadette Leplant, Corpus des Inscriptions de la France Medievale. Vol. 8, Ariege, Haute-Garonne, Hautes-Pyrenees, Tarn-et-Garonne. Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1982.