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An imperfect Irish shrine recently purchased by the Royal Irish Academy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

Extract

The Royal Irish Academy recently purchased from Mr. H. Naylor, a Dublin dealer, a portion of an Irish shrine together with two fragments supposed to have belonged to it. These had been obtained at the sale held at Killua, co. Westmeath, early in June 1920, having formed part of a large number of Irish antiquities collected by Sir Benjamin Chapman, fourth baronet.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1921

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References

page 49 note 1 See Evans, Journal of Hellenic Studies, xxi, pp. 163–9.

page 49 note 2 Warner, Henry Bradshaw Society, xxxii, plates iii, iv, v.

page 49 note 3 Crawford, Journal of Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, xlv, p. 185.

page 49 note 4 Die altgermanische Thierornamentik, figs. 394, 490.

page 51 note 1 Op.cit., p. 357.