Cambyses warns the son of the unfair judge, Remoldus Eynhoudts, after Peter Paul Rubens, 1636 - 1680 print In the presence of soldiers and civilians, Cambyses, King of Persia, focuses his scepter on the newly appointed judge Otanes. Otanes succeeds his father, Sisamnes, after he was skinned alive as a punishment for adding smear. As a warning, the skinned skin of the unfair right hangs above the seat of Otanes. Antwerp paper etching judgement of Cambyses: he appoints Sisamnes' son to succeed his father, whose skin is nailed onto the judgement-seat (possibly flaying of Sisamnes visible)

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