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Graven image

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ5597872 ↗
Source-derived summary

Graven image or graven images may refer to:

Cult image, a human-made object that is venerated or worshipped for the deity, spirit or daemon that it embodies or represents

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, one of the Ten Commandments

Literature

Graven Image, a 1923 novel by Margaret Widdemer

Graven Images (book), a 1966 book of New England gravestone photographs by Allan I. Ludwig

"Graven Image" a short story by E. Hoffmann Price from the 1967 short story collection Strange Gateways

Graven Images (book), a 1982 short story collection by Paul Fleischman

Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books and Graphic Novels, a 2010 essay collection by A. David Lewis and Christine Hoff Kraemer

Graven Image, a 2011 novella by Charlie Williams

Graven Images, a 2011 novel by Ray Norris

The Graven Image, a 2003 nonfiction art history book by Zainab Bahrani.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Graven image” as wikimedia disambiguation page. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1923, 1966, 1967, 1982—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Graven, image and Wikimedia can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia disambiguation page. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5597872. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1923, 1966, 1967 and 1982.

Critical limits

A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Graven image”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Graven image primary sources, Graven image archive and Graven research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Graven image”?
  2. What terminology or title could unlock a more precise catalogue search?
  3. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
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This entry incorporates text from “Graven image” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.