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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. | 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: | 1300
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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