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An Inscribed Lead Pendant from Norfolk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

David Howlett
Affiliation:
Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG, UK. E-mail:.

Abstract

This note describes the scene on Side A and offers a reading of the inscription on Side B of a recently discovered lead pendant from Norfolk. The inscription is read as two symmetrical lines of Anglo-Latin verse that contain transcriptions of one word of Greek and two words of Hebrew, both divine names. All the phenomena on Side B are illustrated by close parallels in Insular Latin literature from the seventh century to the tenth and related to the scene on Side A.

Type
Shorter Contributions
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 2006

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