Agate Casket of Oviedo
Cathedral of Oviedo
.The Agate Casket of Oviedo (
Asturian gold work is kept in the Cámara Santa
(Holy Chamber) treasury.
Construction
It is a rectangular box made of wood of
Morgan Library, New York.[2]
The base of the box is made of pure silver, with a cross made of
St. Luke and the eagle of St. John. The inscription which describes the donation of the box to the cathedral is engraved on the basex.[3]
It reads:
SVSCEPTVM PLACIDE MANEAT HOC IN HO[NO]RE DI QVOD / OFFERVN[T] FAMVLI XPI FROILA ET NVNILO / COGNONENTO SCEMENA. HOC OPVS PERFECTVM ET CONCES/SVM EST SCG SALVATORI OVETENSIS. QVISQVIS / AVFERRE HOC DONARIA NSA PRSVMSERI FVLMINE DIVINO INTEREAT IPSE. OPERATVM EST ERA DCCCCX VIII. May this peaceful undertaking in honour of God endure, which Freula and Nunilo surnamed Jimena gave, obedient to Christ. This work was completed and yielded to the preserver of Oviedo. May he destroy any who removes this gift with divine thunder. This was done in the year 918.
Notes
- ISBN 84-8459-181-6.
- ^ Lasko, 8-9, Plate 3
- ^ (in Spanish) "Caja de las Ágatas", Enciclopedia de Oviedo
References
- García de Castro Valdés, César (2004). "Cripta de San Leocadia". Arte Prerrománico de Asturias. Oviedo: Ediciones Nobel. ISBN 84-8459-181-6.
- "Caja de las Ágatas", Enciclopedia de Oviedo (in Spanish), Oviedo: Ayuntamiento de Oviedo, 2010, archived from the original on 2010-04-03
- Lasko, Peter, Ars Sacra, 800-1200, Yale University Press, 1995 (2nd edn.) ISBN 978-0300060485
External links
- The Art of medieval Spain, A.D. 500-1200, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Agate Casket of Oviedo (no. 71, pp. 143-145)
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