File talk:Markion.jpg

This is pretty clearly NOT a photograph, but a drawing, an an alarmingly lo-res, blown up version. Moreover, there is nothing to prove its copyright, as it seems to be just up-and-taken from a Russian website.

I propose deletion.


 * Of course it's not a photo; Marcion of Sinope lived a good 1800 years before the invention of photography. The image looks like a 19th-century engraving. DS (talk) 15:07, 17 February 2009 (UTC)


 * It looks nothing at all like a 19th-century engraving--more like a drawing made to look like an engraving, in a style that seems fairly recent, I'd say at least post-1960. Regardless of date, the copyright issue is still in question. Regardless of copyright, the image resolution is far too low for use on Wikipedia. Why not find something at least in the same half-millennium? This makes the Marcion of Sinope page seem staggeringly un-professional. Akhenaten0 (talk) 17:42, 18 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Okay, I've found a good source. In R.Eisler's 1938 The Enigma of the Fourth Gospel, there is reference to several images of Marcion dating quite a ways back. The best of these seems to come from MS M.0748 in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, which is currently digitizing all of their MS holdings that have illustrations. M.0748 is not yet digitized, but as soon as it is, this would be a much better image for use on Wikipedia.Akhenaten0 (talk) 20:33, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Link to Eisler's book: here. Link to MS M.0748 in Pierpoint Morgan Library's catalog: here. Akhenaten0 (talk) 14:54, 9 April 2011 (UTC)