
Cleveland Museum of Art
Relic of St. Vincent
- Date
- c. 1045
- Medium
- bone, plain weave undyed silk
- Culture
- Germany, Lower Saxony?, Romanesque period, 11th century
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This relic is housed in the portable altar commissioned by Countess Gertrude of Brunswick, one of the Guelph Treasure’s earliest and most sumptuous objects. This bone is a portion of the occipital bone, where the spinal cord connects to the brain.
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