Hildesheim I

Photo: Sarah Luginbill, July 2019
Image copyright: Sarah Luginbill

Made: c.1007-1015, Hildesheim, Germany, artist and patron unknown

Current Location: Dommuseum Hildesheim, Germany (DS26)

Dimensions and Materials: 15.2 x 26.1 x 10.5cm; silver, niello, red porphyry, wood

Iconography: eight male virtues?; Last Supper; Washing of Christ’s Feet; Meal at Emmaus; Conversion of Paul? Or male donor prostrate before two standing nimbed saints, possibly Cosmas and Damian

Inscriptions: none

Bibliography: Braun 1924; Budde 1998, Nr.7

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