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2nd half 11th c.
The inscription on this oliphant mentions Count Albrecht III of Habsburg, who in 1199 presented the horn filled with relics to the Abbey of Muri in Switzerland. It remains unclear whether the inscribed text dates from the Middle Ages or was added around 1700, when the horn was presented to Emperor Leopold I as a sign of the object’s original connection with his ancestor.
Hunting Horn
Lower Italian, Salerno or Amalfi (?)
2nd half 11th c.
Ivory
51,8 cm × 11,5 cm
"NOTVM. SIT. O (MN) IB (VS). CORNV. ISTVD. ASPICIENTIBVS
QVOD. COMES. ALBERT (VS). ALSATIE(N)SIS. LANTGRA
VI(VS). DE. HAPISP(VRG). NAT(VS). SAC(R)IS. RE(LI)QVVIS. CORNV. IS
TVD. DITAVIT. HEC ACTA SV(NT) ANN
O. M. C. XC. VIIII."
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Kunstkammer
Kunstkammer, 4073
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