Amulet, fragment of wood from a circular wooden relic box [.1] and lid which unscrews to open [.2], with a strip of textile [.3], and a stone [.4]. [RB 04/05/2012]

Collection type: Object
Description: Amulet, fragment of wood from a circular wooden relic box [.1] and lid which unscrews to open [.2], with a strip of textile [.3], and a stone [.4]. [RB 04/05/2012]
Long description: Amulet, circular wooden relic box [.1] and lid which unscrews to open [.2], with a strip of textile [.3], a stone [.4], and a fragment of wood [.5]. The relic box [.1] contains relics mounted on cotton wool, and then onto a textile background. There are five strips of paper with names written on them in black ink, and then mounted on to gold coloured ?foil metal. These read: 'Ste. Vierge', Magdela[?]', 'Prosper', France', and '[?]e. claire'. All of which is framed behind a panel of glass, and there is a green chenille pipe around the rim. There is a piece of cotton textile glued to the inside of the lid [.2], and a a rectangular strip of purple textile [.3], a grey coloured stone [.4], and a fragment of wood [.5] were found lose inside the box. [RB 04/05/2012]
Geographical reference: France
Europe > Western Europe > France; Aquitaine Dordogne Périgueux
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Wellcome Institute; PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1931
Date collected: By 1931
Acquisition information: Transferred: 1985
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Textile, Material Paper Plant, Material Stone, Material Glass, Material Cottonwool Fibre Plant, Material Foil Metal, Process Carved, Process Glued, Process Inscribed
Dimensions: Length x Width: max 8 x 6 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1985.52.1133.5 Other numbers: 2276

Search terms: Religion, Box, Writing, Amulet, Religious Object, Lid, Inscription