Reliquary Cross

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The British Museum, London

Copyright © The Trustees of the British Museum

Culture: Mosan (Belgium)
Date: 1160-70
Material: Copper alloy (gilded), enamel (champlevé and cloisonné), rock crystal on silver backing, lapis lazuli, garnet, amethyst
Dimensions: 37.4 × 25.6 cm
Inscribed: center panel: iacob/efra/im. manasse; top terminal: moyses; aaron; left terminal: vidva; helyas; right terminal: sig/nv.tav; bottom terminal: .iosu/e; caleph; .botrus
Provenance: M. Bouvier, Amiens; William Maskell, Bristol, 1855, by purchase; The British Museum, London, 1856, by purchase
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