File:Scanning Electron Microscope image of contents of pendant, showing unprocessed flax fibres (FindID 256636).jpg
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Scanning Electron Microscope image of contents of pendant, showing unprocessed flax fibres | |||
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The British Museum, Ian Richardson, 2012-06-14 16:21:56 |
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Title |
Scanning Electron Microscope image of contents of pendant, showing unprocessed flax fibres |
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Description |
English: A medieval reliquary pendant of lozenge shape with a suspension loop. The reliquary pendant is gold and dates from the first half of the sixteenth century.
The front panel of the reliquary is engraved with an image of a female saint, either the Virgin Mary or St Helena, supporting the cross. The cross is speckled in a manner suggesting that it is splattered with blood. To the left and right of the figure are foliate tendrils. The saint stands on a chequerboard design, probably indicating a tiled floor or pavement. The back panel slides out to reveal a cavity, undoubtedly designed to contain a relic. This panel has suffered some damage and was upon discovery immovable, since it has been pressed at its bottom into the interior of the pendant. It is engraved with the five wounds of Christ and a profusion of droplets indicating blood. Devotion to the blood and wounds of Christ was one of the hallmarks of late medieval piety. The engraved detail was probably originally enamelled. Marilyn Hockey, Head of Metals Conservation in the British Museum's Department of Conservation and Scientific Research, undertook a procedure working under microscope and using a specially made miniature probe to prise the lid free. It now slides in and out along grooves cut into the side panels, as designed. The side panels of the pendant carry on three faces the names of the Magi: Iaspar, Melcior, Baltasar (Jaspar, Melchior and Balthazar). The fourth side panel is engraved with foliate ornament. The letters of the inscription are of a type of Lombardic script in use in the sixteenth century, as evidenced, for instance by Sergeants' rings of the period. There is a coiled suspension loop, which has a notch cut into it to enable the removal of the back panel. The British Museum's Department of Conservation and Scientific Research conducted non-destructive X-ray fluorescence analysis of the surface of the pendant, which indicated a gold content of 69 to 73%, a silver content of 19 to 21%, with copper making up the rest of the alloy. |
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Depicted place | (County of findspot) Essex | ||
Date |
between 1500 and 1550 date QS:P571,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Accession number |
FindID: 256636 Old ref: ESS-2C4836 Filename: 2009T256_outer_flax_stemx450.jpg |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/385398 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/385398/recordtype/artefacts Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/256636 |
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File change date and time | 16:24, 14 June 2012 |
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Date and time of digitizing | 14:19, 19 April 2012 |
Date metadata was last modified | 17:24, 14 June 2012 |
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