Inscription: (on each corner and in center): A [image of a knot] E [reversed] (unidentified)(on red horn): W [backwards E] D H N O H N M E H O M (too fragmentary for interpretation)
B. Lippincott, 1925. pl. VI, b–d. Breck, Joseph.
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
preservation is a responsibility shared by the many individuals employed at the Museum who have
metallic thread Credit Line: Gift of Alice Topp-Lee, 1978 Object Number: 1978.250a, b
Textile FragmentThe royal textile factories of al-Andalus were famous throughout the medieval world in a period when luxury textiles constituted one of the most valuable possessions in a ruler’s treasury as well as in the trousseaux of wealthy brides
in bright colors and richly decorated with geometric and epigraphic motifs could have
small vase, inscribed with the twenty-six letters of the Etruscan alphabet, may have
What happens when you listen to things you can normally only see? To find out, Beer turned 32 artworks into a playable instrument.
Oliver Beer: I’m a sculptor and have been trained in music, so I’ve always been very
Tomb Pottery Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1951 Object Number: 51.156.1 [ Nellie B.
Andrews, 1976 Object Number: 1976.254.6a, b The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
All relics bestowed honor and privileges upon the possessor, and monasteries and cathedrals sought to hold the most prestigious. Some relics were even stolen from one church, only to find a new home in another.
Medieval reliquaries frequently assume the form of caskets (chasses) ( 2002.483.3a,b)
as by Lanini; his estate sale, Christie’s, London, April 8, 1886, no. 235, as by B.
