Relief with the Judgment of Solomon in the Vierschaar of the Town Hall on the Dam

Relief with the Judgment of Solomon in the Vierschaal of the Town Hall on the Dam in Amsterdam. King Solomon, from his throne, points with his staff at a kneeling woman with a baby, while an executioner is about to divide the child in two. Solomon had given the executioner this order after two women came to him, both claiming motherhood of a child. When the executioner raised his sword, the real mother offered to give up the child, allowing Solomon to identify her. The Vierschaal was a public court of justice used exclusively by the sheriff and aldermen for pronouncing death sentences. Below the scene, two columns, each with three lines of Latin text. Signed in the lower center: A.