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Description: | Incomplete and distorted copper alloy medieval annular brooch with inscription between lines on both faces reserved against a rocker-arm engraved ground. There is a fracture across the hoop at one end and across the pin constriction at the other.
]MARIAGRAИPLENA on one face
XIHESVSNAZAREN[
The letter S is retrograde. The complete first line would have read AVE MARIA GRATIA PLENA, meaning Hail Mary full of grace. The letter shown as И above is a contraction for TIA (gratia).
The first line would have read X IHESVS NAZARENVS meaning Jesus of Nazareth (i.e. the Nazarene), with the X as an initial mark. There is no room for the continuation REX IVDEORVM meaning King of the Jews. Nazarenus is found in St John??s Gospel, Chapter 19, verse 19, in the Vulgate (medieval Latin) version of the Bible.
External diameter 43mm. Width of hoop 7mm. Thickness 1mm. Width of stub of pin constriction 1mm. 14th century.
Inscription: ]MARIAGRAИPLENA // XIHESVSNAZAREN[ | Subjects: | annular | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bales, Ellen - Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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