The 7thC Theuderic reliquary casket, from the Abbey of St. Maurice, Switzerland (image via http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2014/04/treasures-of-st-maurice-abbey-at-louvre.html?m=1 …)pic.twitter.com/E43ZCcP2AK
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looks more like a handbag :-)
Seen at @museecluny it was the fashion of the time and came in many sizes for Relicistaspic.twitter.com/LHRpYGsLAU
Absolutely! All the cool people had handbag reliquaries in the 8thC/9thC ;)https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/710212947247828992 …
I wonder what was the missing piece http://laclefdesrunes.centerblog.net/6551998-Le-coffret-de-Mortain- … Likely Northumbrianpic.twitter.com/UzXAjgkFO2
It sure doesn't look like that to me. It looks, actually, like a very gruesome scene indeed.
I don't think it's a happy one! Suggestion made in linked article, but think other interpretations def possible!
Well stated. I was reluctant to describe what it looked like. But it seems rather detailed.....
its not a handbag
Holding it- and chained to it.
could be - or is it a hostage fortuitously captured with his purse?
If he's a hostage/prisoner/slave, presume he is carrying it as a beast of burden for his captors, not as the item's owner?
Nah, it's a purse. He's a girly man.
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