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Medieval reliquary in the shape of an arm
The drawing shows a reliquary in the shape of St Lachtin's arm, from Donaghmore, Co. Cork, c1120. It is made of wood, covered with cast and engraved plates of bronze, with applied silver panels. Inscriptions on the vertical strips commemorate Maelsechnaill Ua Cellacháin, King of southern Ireland, and Tadg MacCarthaig and his brother Cormac, who were kings of Cashel and Munster.
Creator
- Fountaine, Andrew Sir
- National Museum of Ireland
- Stothard, Robert
Subject
- Drawings
- Metalwork
- Religion
- Wood
- archaeology
- Wood
- Drawing
- Goldwork
- Religion
- Archaeology
Creator
- Fountaine, Andrew Sir
- National Museum of Ireland
- Stothard, Robert
Subject
- Drawings
- Metalwork
- Religion
- Wood
- archaeology
- Wood
- Drawing
- Goldwork
- Religion
- Archaeology
Providing institution
Aggregator
Intermediate provider
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Rights
- Fountaine, Andrew Sir|National Museum of Ireland|Stothard, Robert
Temporal
- 1120 : Circa
- 12th century
- Medieval
- 11XX
- 12th century
Places
- Co. Cork
- Donaghmore
- Europe
- Munster
- National Museum of Ireland
- Republic of Ireland
- County Cork
- Republic of Ireland
Provenance
- Society of Antiquaries of London Catalogue of Drawings and Museum Objects: Instrumenta Ecclesiastica
Source
- Archaeology Data Sevice
Identifier
- society_albums/instrumenta_ecclesiastica/ie35-1c
Is part of
- http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/SoA_images/index.cfm?CFID=9579&CFTOKEN=BF7E76A0-D723-4BB2-9AC4B2BE9A527C12
References
- Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, ed., A New History of Ireland. I: Prehistoric and Early Ireland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). Illustration, pl. 93a.|Griffin Murray, 'The Arm-Shaped Reliquary of St Lachtin: Technique, Style, and Significance', in Colum Hourihane, ed., Irish Art Historical Studies in Honour of Peter Harbison (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004), pp. 141-64.|Patrick F Wallace and Raghnall Ó Floinn (eds.), Treasures of the National Museum of Ireland: Irish Antiquities (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2002), no. 6:4, p. 224. Illustration (Photography), p. 218.|Vetusta Monumenta 6 (1821-1883): pl. XIX. 'Description of a Bronze Arm, an Irish Reliquary, from the Collection of the late Sir Andrew Fountaine'. The text refers to the translation of the inscriptions by Sir William Bentham of Ulster.
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-10-30T21:38:17.408Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-07-25T11:21:26.369Z