An Early Medieval Golden Reliquary Cross from Zagórzyce, Świętokrzyskie voiv. (PL)
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Abstract
A unique golden cross with an embossed depiction of Christ crucified and filigree border was discovered without specific context at multicultural site 1 in Zagórzyce, Kazimierza Wielka District (PL). This artifact is a most impressive example of Early Medieval box-like cross-shaped pendants – unequivocally associated with Christian symbolism – and should be considered to have been a personal reliquary container. The box-like reliquary crosses that most closely parallel the find from Zagórzyce come from discoveries generally dated to the eleventh century. The Zagórzyce reliquary probably comes from a similar period, as it uses an archaic form of Greek cross with slightly flared-out arms, which is found among pendants dated to the tenth century or earlier. It was probably produced at the end of the tenth or in the eleventh century in an area west of Poland, perhaps in the Holy Roman Empire.
Photo Credits: 1 1 and 2: Michał Grygiel; 3: www.google.pl/maps (last access August 16, 2016). — 2 1: Mateusz Biborski; 2: Maciej Sładkowski. — 3 Laboratory of Archaeometallurgy, Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University. — 4 1: Wieczorek and Hinz 2000 (as note 7); 2: Preidel 1939 (as note 11); 3: Karbe 1925 (as note 10); 4: Nowakiewicz 2013 (as note 12); 5: Hollnagel 1958 (as note 10); 6 and 7: Regional Museum in Žatec, Archaeological collection, inv. no. 2135/38, 39, photos: Dušan Perlík.
© 2018 Anna Kubica-Grygiel, Michał Grygiel, published by De Gruyter
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- Debatte: The Summer of Art 2017 (continuation)
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- An Early Medieval Golden Reliquary Cross from Zagórzyce, Świętokrzyskie voiv. (PL)
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- Miszellen
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- Rezensionen
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- Adolph Menzel. Auf der Suche nach der Wirklichkeit
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