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Apr 7, 2017
Relic of St. Bartholomew
Relic of St. Bartholomew
c. 1045
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Mummified flesh/tissue
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1931.462.m
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According to a forensic anthropologist, this material is mummified flesh.
Description
This relic is housed in the portable altar commissioned by Countess Gertrude of Brunswick, which is one of the Guelph Treasure’s earliest and most sumptuous objects.
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