encolpium
English
Alternative forms
- encolpion
Noun
encolpium (plural encolpia or encolpiums)
- A reliquary that is worn suspended from the neck like a medallion.
- 1965, Marvin Chauncey Ross, Catalogue of the Byzantine and Early Mediaeval Antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Volume 2, →ISBN:
- Since encolpiums of this type were used for many centuries, many have survived and the literature is fairly extensive.
- 2002, Herbert Norris, Church Vestments: Their Origin and Development, →ISBN, page 136:
- An encolpium or reliquary is mentioned as being of gold with one side, obviously the front, formed of crystal, the other sides being enamel.
- 2012, Cynthia Jean Hahn, Strange Beauty: Issues in the Making and Meaning of Reliquaries, →ISBN:
- Encolpia in the form of crosses may be a uniquely interactive sort of reliquary.
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