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Red Cloud
Portrait of Charles II of Savoy known as the Good
Lamentation over the dead Christ
Madonna and Child
The children of Charles I of England
Madonna and Child with Six Saints
The archangel Gabriel and Tobias
Bas-relief with a garland of flowers and fruit
Madonna and Child
The three archangels and Tobias
the return of the prodigal son
Portrait of a Gentlewoman
Madonna and Child
Trinity
Stigmata of St. Francis
The vanity of human life
Portrait of an Old Man
Annunciation
Venus
Bust of Minerva
Bust - manly portrait
Psykter di Euthymides
Plate decorated with ribbons and nets
Canteen bowl
Ingot Blade Kit
Landscape relief known as of Polyphemus and Galatea
Colombine ointment
Signpost
Fibulae with disc bracket
Portrait of Carlo Emanuele I of Savoy
Madona with Child
Story of Aeneas and Dido
The family of Vittorio Amedeo di Savoia
Holy family with San Giovannino
The Sacra di San Michele
The thirst suffered by the first crusaders under Jerusalem
Table tureen
Rotisserie
Coffee cup
Kanjar (pug)
Japanese armor of the Do-Maru type
Parade plaque of Henry II of France
Corsaletto
Horse headboard
Portrait of a young girl
Self portrait
Male head
Naked young man next to an old oriental dress
Young man study
Pisces album
Fish album
Fish album
Bird album
Flower album

Ingot Blade Kit

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The grave goods come from a rich burial belonging to a high-ranking Lombard woman discovered in 1910, during the excavation of a well in the courtyard of a recently built building in the Lingotto suburb, then outside the city and still heavily ruralized. The exceptional funeral kit consists of a pair of gold "basket" type earrings, with long mobile pendants and amethyst drops, a chain necklace with gold links, a refined circular cloisonné brooch (fibula) with garnets of the almandine type and colored glass pastes, which cannot be ruled out being an older artifact (5th century), perhaps an heirloom found or handed down. Two prestigious "stirrup" fibulae in gilded silver and niello decorated, with animalistic interlacing of Germanic taste that once had to be pinned to ribbons suspended from the belt, appear worn for a long time. This is proved by the degree of wear of the surfaces, the loss of the knobs of the semicircular plates and the repair carried out in antiquity, visible on the back of one of the two specimens. The cross in gold foil, probably sewn to the funeral veil placed on the face, was made up of a major element and two minor ones (one missing). The decoration, printed with a rectangular mold, sees a repeated interweaving of two animals with ribbon-like bodies that are knotted in the center and ending with a head with an eye on one side and a paw on the other. The symmetrical and harmonious zoomorphic weave (II animalistic style) represents the most mature phase of development that can be followed on the Italian Longobard grave goods: it does not appear to date back to the end of the sixth century. The cross is therefore the most recent find in the trousseau, in line with the most widespread opinion, according to which the precious symbols were offerings specially made for the funeral ceremony. Together with the precious jewels, "a hemispherical basin of copper foil, well preserved, devoid of ornaments, with a diameter of 0.31 m", of which no trace has been lost and which does not seem recognizable in the bronze pottery of uncertain origin of the Turin Antiquity Museum.
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Title: Ingot Blade Kit

Author: Anonymous

Date: 6 - 7 sec. AD

Technique: Gold, silver, amethyst

Displayed in: Royal Museums Turin

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