One of three hinged, multi-part neck crosses in the catalog (2020.30, 2020.40), this example is composed of a triangular hinge with a suspension loop attached to a four-lobed cross. The lower arm is w..
more »One of three hinged, multi-part neck crosses in the catalog (2020.30, 2020.40), this example is composed of a triangular hinge with a suspension loop attached to a four-lobed cross. The lower arm is wider and longer than the other three. Rope-like, twisted wire decorates the face of the hinge and cross on side 1. Three concentric circles of wire fill the triangular hinge; concentric wire teardrops fill each lobe of the cross. Six circular bosses decorate side 1; they are placed at the center of the triangular hinge, on the four lobes, and at the crossing. Fourteen small circular disks are attached to the contours of the object: the hinge has four, the upper and left arms each have two, and the right and lower arms each have three. Side 2 lacks any decoration; the upper lobe of the cross is partially obscured by a price sticker.
Sarah Mathiesen, in Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art & Architecture 8, no. 1 (Spring 2022): 147–48. https://digital.kenyon.edu/perejournal/vol8/iss1/1/
« less