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Description: | Pressed copper alloy book or casket mount. The mount is rectangular with a crescentric extention at either shorter side. The face of the object is decorated with a pressed scene depicting a standing adult on the right facing left with one arm outstretched, offering something to what appears to be a child standing on the left facing right. There is a tree in the background and what looks like a small altar in the centre between the two figures. There is a snake coiled around the standing adult, with its head dropped over the figures shoulder. The scene is probably depicting the fall of man in the garden of Eden as described in Genesis. The scene would make the objects function as a book fitting more likely than a casket, probably originally being attached to a bible. | 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: | 1400
1599 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Adam Daubney | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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