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| Keywords: Rhenish - Arm Reliquary of Saint Pantaleon - Walters 57688 - Left Side.jpg This silver arm is known as a speaking reliquary because it takes shape of the body part it once contained The reliquary reputedly held an arm bone of Saint Pantaleon a Holy Doctor martyred in Asia Minor AD 305 who later became the patron saint of physicians The remains of an inscription along the seam of the sleeve refer to the saint by name The small door with the two glass shields was added in the 15th century as was the crystal at the edge of the sleeve Reliquary late 13th century; Additions 15th century Medieval gilded silver with rock crystal semiprecious stones glass and niello cm 47 2 12 8 9 2 accession number 57 688 25190 A Tollin Paris Chevallier Mannheim Paris May 20 1897 no 79 Robert Hoe New York American Art Association New York February 15 1911 no 1813 Wareham Harding New York Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1920 Transcription Incomplete inscription in niello on the narrow silver strip ornamenting the seam of the sleeve DE SANCTI PANTALEONIS + AVE; Translation From Pantaleon greetings A Medieval Treasury from Southern Collections Ackland Art Center University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill 1961 Reliquaries and Ritual Medieval Objects of Devotion The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984-1985 Treasures of Heaven The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; The British Museum London 2010-2011 place of origin west Germany Walters Art Museum license Arm Reliquary of Saint Pantaleon | ||||
