Merovingian 6th/7thC pierced disk w/ the head of Christ, found Limons, France, gold+garnets: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Disque_de_Limons.JPG …pic.twitter.com/scIz9hrjwZ
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Drawing of 7thC buckle showing Christ w/ fangs on horseback (http://cem.revues.org/6752 ); photo=http://plaques-boucles.chez-alice.fr/ pic.twitter.com/uC3lFY7f8B
Christ also with his trademark axe and javelin? Or is it a Christian buckle-owner?
I have read a version of this being related to unknown countryside form of worships.as vs more elegant more skilled town buckles!
An interesting idea! :-)
Will have to translate in tweets. Rather difficult as French historians can be quite verbose. Like me. Giggles
A 9thC depiction of Christ as a warrior, Stuttgart Psalter: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stuttgart_Psalter_fol23.jpg …pic.twitter.com/GrLSSFPUMk
Christ Triumphant on the L8thC Genoels-Eldoren ivory diptych, Bavarian/Insular? http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/GenoelsElderen.html …pic.twitter.com/kGspDHGSEF
L8thC Anglo-Carolingian Tassilo Chalice, w/ Christ+evangelists, from Kremsmünster, Austria: http://www.medievalhistories.com/tassilo-chalice/ …pic.twitter.com/0ZH5j2KtWn
Jeweled upper cover of the L9thC Lindau Gospels showing the Crucifixion, poss made St Denis: http://www.themorgan.org/collection/lindau-gospels/front-cover …pic.twitter.com/GabxSi8Vhl
Detail of Christs+cross from the L8thC back cover to the 9thC Lindau Gospels, made Salzburg? http://www.themorgan.org/collection/lindau-gospels/back-cover#overlay-context=collection/lindau-gospels/back-cover%3Fid%3D67 …pic.twitter.com/B4d6qds3et
Close-up of the E6thC ivory 'Buckle of St Caesarius', Arles, showing the Holy Sepulchre, via http://f.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/162/files/2011/11/CeintureCesaire.jpg …pic.twitter.com/FtzJbadoq9
The horse seems part Uffington, part pantomime!
It's utterly fascinating----notice also the centipede of the apocalypse! ;)
It seems to be hurling itself through the air, no wonder Jesus is armed with an axe and arrow!
Hah! True! ;)
Beautiful. Why is it Christ and not - say any other legendary figure etc? What does the inscription say?
It's a reference to Revelations :) See further https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+19&version=NRSV …pic.twitter.com/O0QudAqDDF
That is a killer quote! So the text on the buckle is part of that quote?
It's a millenarian allusion to Christ's 1,000 yr reign mentioned in the next chapter of Revelations :)https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+20&version=NRSV …
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