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Description: | Copper alloy vesica-shaped (pointed oval) seal matrix, back unseen. Device of a tonsured monk in Benedictine garb standing on a plinth, holding a book in his right hand, a papal crozier (three cross-pieces just below hook of crozier) in his left. An eight-pointed star is on the right of the figure, an upwards-facing crescent on the left, both approximately at the monk's hip height. Figure is Pope Gregory the Great (540-604). Device in very good condition, separated from the legend area by a fine line. No evidence of any lettering ever having been present.
Measurements: approx. 72 mm x 84 mm [Note that this is a scan of the matrix face?] | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1530
1570 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Irene Szymanski | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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