/internal/media/dispatcher/1030881/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailReliquary casket ("Emly Shrine")late 7th–early 8th century9.2 x 4.1 x 10.5 cm (3 5/8 x 1 5/8 x 4 1/8 in.)Champlevé enamel on bronze over yew wood; gilt bronze moldings, inlay of lead-tin alloyTheodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Charlotte Beebe Wilbour52.13961Carved from a single block of wood, the body and lid have bronze moldings applied with small nails on the edges. Attached to the ridgepole of the sloped roof are bird's-head terminals in green, yellow and red (now brown) enamel and a central boss-repeating the shape of the shrine- with a grid of yellow and green enamel. Only the front is decorated with thin strips of a lead-tin alloy hammered into a repetitive step pattern around central crosses engraved in the wood and with three medallions with yellow and green enamel arranged in a geometric pattern of concentric circles. There are two hinges on the back and an interior clasp on the front.Enamels9.200000000010.50000000005228701