Reliquary bag with lions
Cleveland Museum of Art

Reliquary bag with lions

late 1100s-1300s

cloth d’areste, weft-faced lozenge twill variant: silk and gold thread
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

This silk bag originally held bits of mummified flesh or tissue which was labeled as being from Saint Bartholomew.

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