seal-impression
- Museum number
- 2000,0103.241
- Description
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Circular electrotype of the reverse of the later seal of the chapter of Dunfermline Abbey, Fife, Showing four angels supporting, within a vesical frame, a figure of the savior seated in the Judgement Day, on a rainbow, with an open book, cruciferons nimbus and uplifted hand of blessing. Outside the vesical an estoile of eight points on each side.
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 65 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This cast was taken from an original seal impression dated 1509. Gray Birch example: cast from matrix at Oxford.
Bibliography: Laing Catal. No.s 1012.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 2000
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2000,0103.241
