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| Photographer |
Bristol City Council, Kurt Adams, 2020-05-04 16:20:22 |
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| Title |
SEAL MATRIX |
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| Description |
English: Lead alloy flat pointed oval or vessica shape seal matrix. The face is finely decorated with a bishop dressed in his vestments that are shown as a long robe with mutable chevron shaped folds running down the front and transverse detailing at the hem and neck. This right arm is held up to shoulder height with the index and middle finger extended. His left hand grips a crozier which is shown to have a simple curved head and a straight vertical staff. Also trailing from the left hand are two linear groves that are decorated with multiple transverse lines which represent beads. The facts id defined by a projecting pointed, triangular nose flanked by pellet eyes and a slot for the mouth below. A triangular miter decorated with latitudinal lines sits atop of his head. An upwardly facing crescent flank either side of the figure. Running around the figure is the inscription DAVIT : DEI : ORA : SCIV ANDREE ; ESISCOPVS (David, Gods Messenger, Bishop of St Andrews) The would be the seal of David de Bernham who was the Bishop of St Andrews between 1239-1253 On the reverse is a rearwards projecting tab at one end that sits atop a central rib that runs down the reverse. |
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| Depicted place | (County of findspot) Gloucestershire | ||
| Date | between 1239 and 1253 | ||
| Accession number |
FindIdentifier: 1002637 |
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| Source |
https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/1102589 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1102589/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine |
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| Permission (Reusing this file) |
Attribution License version 2.0 (verified 13 November 2020) | ||
| Other versions | FindID 1002637 has multiple images: 1102589 1102590 search | ||
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| current | 22:49, 4 November 2020 | | 3,415 × 2,485 (3.38 MB) | Fæ | Portable Antiquities Scheme, GLO, FindID: 1002637-1102589, medieval, page 332, batch count 6309 |
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