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Reliquary Bust
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A wooden reliquary bust of a cleric with a tonsured head. The bust is polychrome with a rock crystal set in the head beneath which a relic would have been visible. Reliquaries in the shape of a head were common during the medieval periodand would have contained relics.
Culture: Medieval Materials: wood, rock crystal. Dims: H30.5 x W (at base) 26.7. Accession no: HCM 006 Current Location: The Hunt Museum, Limerick
Title: Reliquary Bust
Description:
A wooden reliquary bust of a cleric with a tonsured head.
The bust is polychrome with a rock crystal set in the head beneath which a relic would have been visible.
Reliquaries in the shape of a head were common during the medieval periodand would have contained relics.
Culture: Medieval Materials: wood, rock crystal.
Dims: H30.
5 x W (at base) 26.
7.
Accession no: HCM 006 Current Location: The Hunt Museum, Limerick.
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