Catalogue of the ivory carvings of the Christian era with examples of Mohammedan art and carvings in bone in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum (1909)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · London : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 87
itwill be remembered that Benedict Biscop of Wearmouth had been a monk in the monastery ofLerins in a. d. 665-7, and that he imported workmen from Gaul into Northumbria. The ivory casket at Brunswick, with a runic inscription on the bottom, and animals withinterlacings upon the sides and top, was… … the same plane. On one side of the disc is engraved in intaglio the half-figureof a man in profile to left (of the impression). He is bearded, and wears a mantlefastened on the left shoulder with a circular brooch : he holds a sword before himwith the point upwards : Legend: + SICILLVM…
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