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The Moylough Belt-Shrine is a highly decorated 8th-century Irish reliquary shaped in the form of a belt. It consists of four hinged bronze segments, each forming cavities that hold strips of plain leather assumed to have once been a girdle belonging to a saint and thus the intended relic. It remains the only known relic container created as a belt-shrine, although such objects are mentioned in some lives of Irish saints, where they are attributed with "remarkable cures", and there are surviving reliquary buckles in continental Europe. The belt may have been influenced by 7th-century Frankish and Burgundian types.

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rdfs:label	Moylough Belt-Shrine (en)
rdfs:comment	The Moylough Belt-Shrine is a highly decorated 8th-century Irish reliquary shaped in the form of a belt. It consists of four hinged bronze segments, each forming cavities that hold strips of plain leather assumed to have once been a girdle belonging to a saint and thus the intended relic. It remains the only known relic container created as a belt-shrine, although such objects are mentioned in some lives of Irish saints, where they are attributed with "remarkable cures", and there are surviving reliquary buckles in continental Europe. The belt may have been influenced by 7th-century Frankish and Burgundian types. (en)
name	Moylough Belt-Shrine (en)
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dcterms:subject	Christian reliquaries Medieval European metalwork objects Collection of the National Museum of Ireland Insular art 1945 archaeological discoveries 8th century in Ireland
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Christian reliquaries Samthann Mica Medieval European metalwork objects Alloy Ardagh Hoard Collection of the National Museum of Ireland Insular art Joseph Raftery 1945 archaeological discoveries Inlay Insular art Colman mac Duagh Columbanus County Sligo Medallion Oath Raghnall Ó Floinn Enda of Aran Franks Millefiori Liam Price Bog Chip carving Stamping (metalworking) Peat Michael J. O'Kelly 8th century in Ireland British Museum Tubbercurry Girdle Find spot Bronze Celtic cross Chasuble Granite Vitreous enamel The Blitz Athlone Kildare Street High cross Triskelion Mobhí Clárainech Reliquary Book of Durrow Burgundians Society of Antiquaries of London Metropolitan Museum of Art National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology Second World War Moylough Hanging bowls
Link from a Wikipage to an external page	https://archive.org/details/lostfounddiscove0000unse/ https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Treasures_of_Early_Irish_Art_1500_BC_to_1500_AD
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image caption	The Moylough Belt-Shrine (en)
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location	National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin (en)
material	Copper-alloy, silver, mica, enamel, glass, millefiori, leather (en)
period	c. 700 AD (en)
place	Moylough townland, County Sligo, Ireland (en)
size	Length : 90.1cm, width : 5.2cm (en)
has abstract	The Moylough Belt-Shrine is a highly decorated 8th-century Irish reliquary shaped in the form of a belt. It consists of four hinged bronze segments, each forming cavities that hold strips of plain leather assumed to have once been a girdle belonging to a saint and thus the intended relic. It remains the only known relic container created as a belt-shrine, although such objects are mentioned in some lives of Irish saints, where they are attributed with "remarkable cures", and there are surviving reliquary buckles in continental Europe. The belt may have been influenced by 7th-century Frankish and Burgundian types. The shrine was found in a peat bog by John Towey in April or May 1945, while he was cutting turf near Moylough, a small village on the outskirts of Tubbercurry, County Sligo. It is dated to the 8th century based on the similarity of its decorations, particularly the glass studs, to those on the Ardagh Chalice (8th or 9th century). The art historian Raghnall Ó Floinn has described the belt as "one of the major treasures of Early Christian Irish art", and it is noted for both the evident craftsmanship, and quality of its design elements, including the cast-bronze medallions, enamel and stamped silver inlays, the animal and bird heads, and spiral patterns. It is held at the archaeology building of the National Museum of Ireland (NMI) in Dublin, where it is on permanent display in its Treasury room. (en)
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