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Relic of St. Hermetis

c. 1045
bone, compound weave or samite
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1931.462.d
Location: 106C Medieval Treasury
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This relic is a long bone from an arm or a leg (such as a humerus, femur, or fibula); exact identification is not possible without unwrapping.

Description

This relic is in the portable altar commissioned by Countess Gertrude of Brunswick, one of the Guelph Treasure’s earliest and most sumptuous objects.
Relic of St. Hermetis

Relic of St. Hermetis

c. 1045

Germany, Lower Saxony?, Romanesque period, 11th century

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