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Historical Archive: Sancta Sanctorum reliquary box

Syria or Palestine, late sixth or early seventh century
interior of lid: encaustic paint with gilding on wood, 24 x 18.4 x 1 cm
wooden box containing stones from the Holy Land
from the Chapel of the Sancta Sanctorum, Lateran Palace, Rome
Museo Sacro, Vatican, inventory nos. 61883.2.1-2


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full lid
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full lid with different shadows
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lid at oblique angle, showing curvature
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box with relics
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lid with person for scale
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Women at the Tomb
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Ascension
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Crucifixion
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Crucifixion: good thief and Mary
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Crucifixion: Longinus, Christ, Stephathon
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Crucifixion: John and bad thief
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Nativity
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Baptism of Christ