Capital Nine

In the Book of Revelations the city of Jerusalem is the symbol for the new world under God's order. The capital depicts a cityscape with the legend: SANCTA IHERUSALEM.

Biblical sources: Rev 21:2-4 and Rev 21: 9-27

Inscribed around the capital: Holy Jerusalem.

East View: The city gate. Inscribed: EM SA	South View: Spearman over the wall. Inscribed: SAL
West View: City gate. Inscribed: IHERV	North View: City wall. Inscribed: NCTA

Rev 21:2-4
² And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband;
³ and I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Behold, the dwelling of God is with men. He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself will be with them;
⁴ he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away.

Rev 21:9-27
⁹ Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues, and spoke to me, saying, "Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb."
¹⁰ "And in the Spirit he carried me away to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,
¹¹ having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.
¹² It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of Israel were inscribed;
¹³ on the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates.
¹⁴ And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
¹⁵ And he who talked to me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city and its gates and walls.
¹⁶ The city lies foursquare, its length the same as its breadth; and he measured the city with his rod, twelve thousand stadia; its length and breadth and height are equal.
¹⁷ He also measured its wall, a hundred and forty-four cubits by a man's measure, that is, an angel's.
¹⁸ The wall was built of jasper, while the city was pure gold, clear as glass.
¹⁹ The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every jewel; the first was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald,
²⁰ the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst.
²¹ And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each of the gates made of a single pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold, transparent as glass.
²² And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.
²³ And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine upon it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb.
²⁴ By its light shall the nations walk; and the kings of the earth shall bring their glory into it,
²⁵ and its gates shall never be shut by day- and there shall be no night there;
²⁶ they shall bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations.
²⁷ But nothing unclean shall enter it, nor any one who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.

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.