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Description: | A copper alloy, vesica-shaped (pointed oval) seal matrix, suspension loop intact on reverse. Device: the angel showing the empty tomb after Christ's resurrection. The angel is on the left, sitting on the edge of a cross-hatched rectangular tomb, whose open lid is propped up vertically inside it. Although the angel is seated facing the viewer, his upper body is turned to his left, such that his right wing is visible running down the left-hand edge of the scene, and his face is in profile. In his right hand he holds what appears to be a scroll, whilst he indicates the empty tomb with his left. He has short hair and is nimbed. Between his face and his right hand there appears to be a piece of foliage. Below the angel's feet, in the vesica's bottom point, there is a hooded head facing right. Although much of the device is separated from the legend by a line, this stops short of the head, which sits, disembodied and incongrupus, below the angel's feet. A similar line once ran around the outer edge of the matrix face, but the vast majority of it is now lost. Measurements: 21 mm x 35 mm.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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