Sigil of Sabnock
At a glance
- Entry
- 43 of 72
- Rank
- Marquis
- Legions
- 50 in the text
- Also written
- Savnok
Description in the text
Sabnock is said to build towers, castles, and cities and equip them with armor. The same account associates him with prolonged sores and wounds and with providing familiars.
Read entry 43 on page 36 of the 1916 edition
Appearance
An armored soldier with a lion head riding a pale horse.
Topics attributed to this entry
- Fortifications
- Armor
- Familiars
Reading this entry
Sabnock, also Savnok, is a lion-headed armored soldier riding a pale horse. The marquis is said to build tall towers, castles, and cities, then supply them with armor. Like Halphas, he has a fortification office, but the source extends Sabnock’s construction from towers to whole settlements. His military image makes that office visually coherent within the passage.
The entry also attributes prolonged, decaying wounds and the provision of good familiars. These claims sit uncomfortably beside the constructive task, and none should be erased to make a cleaner portrait. Sabnock commands 50 legions and has a seal. The number is comparatively large for a marquis in this list. Its opening reference to Solomon’s brass vessel situates the entry within the grimoire’s wider containment story.
Read entry 43 on page 36 of the 1916 edition or compare the 1904 transcription.
A closer reading of entry 43
What the numbered text says
Sabnock’s armored, lion-headed rider is introduced as the forty-third spirit in the vessel of brass, tying a distinctive portrait to the wider Solomon frame. Towers, castles, and cities form a sequence of fortified building, and the passage adds armor as their equipment. A second attributed office concerns persistent, infected sores; good familiars are a third. The entry juxtaposes military infrastructure and bodily affliction without asserting that one causes the other.
About the printed seal
Seal 43 belongs to frontispiece 4. It identifies one printed entry under Sabnock and Savnok, while the lion head and pale horse belong to the description. The source does not interpret the emblem as an architectural plan or medical mark.
Compare another entry
Compare entry 38: Halphas. Halphas also constructs towers and supplies them for conflict, but his entry sends armed men to appointed places. Sabnock broadens the buildings to castles and cities, then adds sores and familiars. Their shared fortification theme does not erase these distinct offices.