The L8thC Anglo-Saxon (probably Mercian) Gandersheim Casket, made from whalebone and bronze: http://www2.pugetsound.edu/faculty/tinsley/Courses/hum303/casket.jpg …pic.twitter.com/QMTCKcLfs0
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A lovely L8thC portable reliquary with leather carrying strap, Sens cathedral, Burgundy: http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/SensReliquary.html …pic.twitter.com/z6dMBy5ZKq
Tunic of the Merovingian Queen Balthild, silk embroidery on linen, from her reliquary, c.680?: http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/TunicBalthild.html …pic.twitter.com/kn1ddGKBgb
I thought of Elizabeth Peters’ “Street of the Five Moons” when I saw this, cause the Talisman of Charlemagne is a plot point.
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