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Pendant reliquary »
название:
Св. Георгий / Св. Дмитрий
St George / St Demetrius
история:
From Thessaloniki (Greece).
Purchased with the aid of the National Art Collections Fund and O.M.Dalton.
Greek inscription around the rim of the box refers to the relics of St Demetrius, who is shown on the other side of the box, lying in his shrine in the church of his name at Thessaloniki.
There are parallels in thirteenth-century Crusader art for the figure of St Demetrius. The enamelled panel with the saint is actually a hinged flap which opens to reveal a gold effigy of the saint and a place for his relics.

A much later inscription, in Georgian, is engraved on the annular gold section of the lid. It was added in the mid-eighteenth century and suggests that the reliquary once contained a fragment of the True Cross which belonged to St Kethevan, a Georgian queen martyred by the Persian ruler Shah Abbas I in 1624.

место:
Лондон: музей Британский
London: British museum
композиция:
Св. Георгий
St George »

Св. Дмитрий

St Demetrius »
надпись:
ГЄWРГНUС

AITЄIGЄqЄPMONФPO...NЄNMAXAICЄXЄIN

([The wearer] prays that you will be his fiery defender in battles)

...ЄXPICMON OH...

(Anointed with your blood and myrrh)

ДНМНТР

оформление:
13 в. Byzantine.
Золото.
Gold. »
Эмаль.
Enamel. »
Ж 37.
h = 10.
M&ME 1926,4-9,1
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