Relic Bundle with Saints Stephen, Sophie, Perpetua, Paul, Barnaba, Philip, Simon, Thaddeus, John the Apostle, and James

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Relic Bundle with Saints Stephen, Sophie, Perpetua, Paul, Barnaba, Philip, Simon, Thaddeus, John the Apostle, and James

Date
c. 1045
Medium
Compound weave or samite
Culture
Germany, Lower Saxony?, Romanesque period, 11th century
Department
Medieval Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
299103

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These relics are housed in the portable altar commissioned by Countess Gertrude of Brunswick, one of the Guelph Treasure’s earliest and most sumptuous objects. An x-ray revealed only small specks of solid material among this wrapped bundle.

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Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust

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