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Description: | A complete copper-alloy medieval circa 14th century seal matrix of chess pawn type, with a trefoil shaped suspension loop and a faceted shaft and a circular die. It measures 27.91mm in height and 21.41mm in die diameter it is 9.47g in weight. The die has a central image of a bird crouched over a nest with three chicks within it, it is a pelican in its piety, feeding its young with the blood dropping from its own breast, this was a symbol of Christ's sacrifice and was one of several religious motifs popular on late-medieval anonymous seals. There is a border inscription, which reads SVM RELICDLVS, which means 'I am a Pelican' although the person who inscribed it appears to have mistakenly put an R in place of the P of Pelican. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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