Relic of St. Hermetis

Cleveland Museum of Art

Relic of St. Hermetis

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

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

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