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Medieval bronze reliquary from Oxfordshire
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The item is a plate from Archaeological Journal (see Bibliography).The engraving shows a bronze object, thought in 1849 to have been the cover of a pyx, now thought to have been part of a reliquary (see Bibliography). It depicts the figure of Christ in Majesty, seated on a rainbow and holding a book. Around the edges is an inscription reading INTUS QUOD LATET CVNCTO NOS CRIMINE LAXET.
Title: Medieval bronze reliquary from Oxfordshire
Description:
The item is a plate from Archaeological Journal (see Bibliography).
The engraving shows a bronze object, thought in 1849 to have been the cover of a pyx, now thought to have been part of a reliquary (see Bibliography).
It depicts the figure of Christ in Majesty, seated on a rainbow and holding a book.
Around the edges is an inscription reading INTUS QUOD LATET CVNCTO NOS CRIMINE LAXET.
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