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Cast of a spandrel ornament

Plaster cast

Museum number: M243

On display: Basement South Passage
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Curatorial note

This cast must have been taken from a church or religious building because it bears the IHS monogram or more properly christogram, IHS, representing the first three Greek letters of the name Jesus. This was the most common christogram used in medieval western christian iconography.


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