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Ring Brooch

1200-1300 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Ring brooch, gold, inscribed in Lombardic letters ending in a foliate spray; on the obverse in French ':PENSEET: DELI: PARKI: SUECY:' ('I think of him with this token'); on the reverse ':IESUS: NAZAREN[US] REX : IUDORUM' ('Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews').The pin missing.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Gold
Brief description
Ring brooch, gold, inscribed with a romantic and a religious inscription in Lombardic letters. English or French, 1200-1300
Physical description
Ring brooch, gold, inscribed in Lombardic letters ending in a foliate spray; on the obverse in French ':PENSEET: DELI: PARKI: SUECY:' ('I think of him with this token'); on the reverse ':IESUS: NAZAREN[US] REX : IUDORUM' ('Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews').The pin missing.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 3.3cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • ':PENSET: DELI: PARKI: SUECY:' (On the obverse, in French, in Lombardic letters)
    Translation
    I think of him with this token
  • IESVS: NAZEREN[VS] REX: IVDIORVM (On the reverse)
Credit line
Given by Dame Joan Evans
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Lightbown, Ronald. Medieval European Jewellery: with a catalogue of the collection in the Victoria & Albert Museum. London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1992, cat. 7, p. 492
Collection
Accession number
M.46-1975

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Record createdSeptember 10, 2004
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