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The Franks Casket.

The Franks Casket (or the Auzon Casket) is a small Anglo-Saxon whale's bone (not "whalebone" in the sense of baleen) chest from the early 8th century, now in the British Museum. The casket is densely decorated with knife-cut narrative scenes in flat two-dimensional low-relief and with inscriptions mostly in Anglo-Saxon runes. Generally reckoned to be of Northumbrian origin.
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Title: The Franks Casket.
Caption: The Franks Casket (or the Auzon Casket) is a small Anglo-Saxon whale's bone (not "whalebone" in the sense of baleen) chest from the early 8th century, now in the British Museum. The casket is densely decorated with knife-cut narrative scenes in flat two-dimensional low-relief and with inscriptions mostly in Anglo-Saxon runes. Generally reckoned to be of Northumbrian origin.
Credit: Album / Universal Images Group / Universal History Archive/UIG
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Image size: 6290 × 3334 px | 60.0 MB
Print size: 53.3 × 28.2 cm | 2476.4 × 1312.6 in (300 dpi)
Keywords: 01/01/1754 • 8TH CENTURY • 8TH • ANATOMY: BONES • ANGLO-SAXON • AUZON CASKET • BONE • BOSOM • BREAST • CASKET • CHEST • DECORATED • EIGHTH CENTURY • FRANKS CASKET • INSCRIPTIONS • KNIFE-CUT • LOW-RELIEF • NARRATIVE • NORTHUMBRIAN • RUNE • RUNES