Relic of St. Adelaide

Cleveland Museum of Art

Relic of St. Adelaide

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

This relic is housed inside of the portable altar commissioned by Countess Gertrude of Brunswick, one of the Guelph Treasure’s earliest and most sumptuous objects. This bone is thought to belong to a finger (metacarpal) although the curve is too prominent for a human. An exact determination can't be made without unwrapping it.

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