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Description: | Copper alloy inscribed strip which is broken into two pieces and incomplete. The strip is a tapering, thin bar. It is rectangular in cross section. It tapers to a point at the complete end. The other end is broken off. There are Old English inscriptions on both faces in an early style of lettering (Anglo-Saxon capitals). There are inscribed lateral lines along each of the sides. The inscription is framed by parallel lines. After each inscription continuing to the point of the strip is a curvilinear inscribed line with a dash in each curve.It is possibly an ownership or dedicatory inscription from a shrine, reliquary or book cover. Date: Late Early-medieval to Early Medieval - c. 1050 - 1150Dimensions: 129.12mm x 10.13mm x 3.44mm. Weight 21.01gElizabeth Okasha published the following details of the inscription in Osaka, E, 2004 A third supplement to Hand-List of Anglo-Saxon Non-Runic Inscriptions in Anglo-Saxon England, 33., pp. 225 - 281, page 243 - 244, Number 230"....Text i on one face, text ii on other, both reading from broken to complete end, thus upside down with respect to each other; both texts legible but incomplete. OE, probably descriptive formulae, type a. AS capitals. Late eleventh or early 12th century.Unpublished.i:- [E]AHAHEHINE|ii:- [T]ENNABBE SEME|Text i reads:-[E] AH A HE Hine, 'he will always possess it', with HINE refering to an object that is grammatically masculine. Text ii reads: - [T]EN NABBE SE ME, '-he who may not own me' where NABBE is a late spelling of NAEBBE, present subjunctive singular of the negative form of HABBAN 'to have, own, look after' etc. The ending - [T]EN could be the inflexion of a strong past participle or a late spelling of an adjectival or adverbial ending -AN. It is not clear how much text is lost and the whole cannot therefore be reconstructed. It could have been of the form '[This belongs to X]and] he will always possess it. [May God curse the loser], he may not look after me, or {May God curse the taker], he who may not own me.' Such putative curses occur in some Anglo-Saxon wills and charters and on 114 Sutton. the strip is dated on artistic grounds."
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