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Seal matrix (Impression in wax)

Seal matrix (Impression in wax)
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London, The British Museum

1854,1118.1 (Dalton 252)

Walrus ivory

Height: 49mm
Width: 30mm
Depth: 10mm

Unidentified bishop; mitre.
Under one trefoil arch.

Dalton 1909: English, late 13th century.
Tonnochy 1952: English (Exeter), late 13th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: English (Exeter), 1275-1300.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Stained dark brown.

Reverse
Flat. Scratched.

Object Condition
Fragment of whole.

Comments
Inscription: 'BOh' (?).

Provenance
Found near Exeter, Devon. Collection of W. S. Walford; British Museum, by donation, 1854.

Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum, (London, 1909), no. 252.
A. B. Tonnochy, Catalogue of British Seal-Dies in the British Museum (London, 1952), no. 827, pl. XXIII.


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