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Medieval Pilgrim Ampulla | |||
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Frank Basford, 2015-04-24 17:07:32 |
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Title |
Medieval Pilgrim Ampulla |
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Description |
English: A complete Medieval lead pilgrim ampulla (c. 1300-c. 1500).
This ampulla is complete but the attachment lugs/loops are corroded. The body is sub-square in plan and each face is flattened so that they are now concave. The edges of the sides and base are bevelled. Each side of the neck flares upwards and outwards towards the top. The mouth is tightly closed. On one face, level with the attachment lugs, there is a near horizontal ridge with eight radiating ridges below which emulate an escallop shell. The other face also has a raised design in the form of a triangle with vertical ridges or labels above. The ampulla is grey with patches of a buff patina. Height: 50.5mm; width: 30.8mm; thickness: 7.8mm. Weight: 33.62g. Brian Spencer, formerly Senior Keeper at the Museum of London, who made a life-time study of ampullae, has written: 'Ampullae or miniature phials were an important kind of souvenir. Generally flask-shaped, but with a narrow, flattish section, they were designed to contain a dose of the thaumaturgic water that was dispensed to pilgrims at many shrines and holy wells. Ampullae were made of tin or lead or tin-lead alloy and were provided with a pair of handles or loops so that they could be suspended from a cord or chain around the wearer's neck. Coming into use in the last quarter of the twelfth century, they were, in England, almost the only kind of pilgrim souvenir to be had during the thirteenth century. They were nevertheless available at a number of shrines, and thanks to returning pilgrims or to local entrepreneurs, probably featured as secondary relics in virtually every thirteenth-century English parish church. Until the early fourteenth century, ampullae took various forms, were frequently inscribed and usually bore representations of the cult-figure or relic that they were intended to commemorate......Ampullae could be comfortably kept on the person or easily hung up in the home, or suspended , for the benefit of livestock, in the stable or cow shed or on the beehive. Ampullae were often donated to the neighbourhood, to be hung in the parish church. Almost as a matter of course, churches throughout thirteenth-century England secured possession of Canterbury ampullae containing what was perhaps the most famous of all elixirs, the water of St Thomas, tinged with the martyr's miracle-working blood' (Spencer, B. 1990, 57-58). Spencer, B. 1990. Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges. Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum. Salisbury. |
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Depicted place | (County of findspot) Isle of Wight | ||
Date |
between 1300 and 1500 date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1300-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Accession number |
FindID: 717704 Old ref: IOW-A1FF86 Filename: IOW201597.JPG |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/514297 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/514297/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/717704 |
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