- Museum number
- 1856,0623.5
- Description
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Casket; one of four panels; ivory, carved in relief with the Death of Judas and the Crucifixion: to the left, Judas hangs from tree; below him the purse from which fall pieces of silver; to the right Christ is nailed by the hands only to the cross, his feet unsupported, at the back of his head an engraved nimbus; above his head a titulus with inscription; to the right a soldier (Longinus) in the act of piercing Christ's side with a spear; on the left stand the Virgin and St John.
- Production date
- 420-430 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 75 millimetres
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Weight: 106 grammes
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Width: 102 millimetres
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Depth: 20 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Part of 1856,0623.4-7
- Location
- On display (G41/dc8/sA)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2017-2018 19 Oct-18 Feb, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Imagining the divine: Art and the Rise of the World Religions
2011 23 June-9 Oct, London, BM, Treasures of Heaven
2007 18 Nov-2008 30 Mar, USA, Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art
2000 23 Feb-7 May, London, The National Gallery, Seeing Salvation: The Image of Christ
1996 30 Mar-13 Nov, Italy, Rimini, Sala dell’Arengo, Dalla Terra Alle Genti
1983-1984 15 Dec-11 Mar, Germany, Frankfurt, Städtische Galerie Liebieghaus, Late Antiquity and Early Christianity
1981 27 Feb-4 May, France, Paris, Musee de Luxembourg, A l'Aube de France, la Gaule de Constantin a Childeric
1980 12 Oct-15 Dec, Germany, Mainz, Gallien in der Spatantike
1977-1978 18 Nov-12 Feb, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Early Christian Art
- Condition
- The middle section of the tree is a restoration; the spear is broken; the engraved nimbus may be a later addition.
- Acquisition date
- 1856
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1856,0623.5
