Golgotha im Kopf. Karl der Kahle und die karolingischen Elfenbeinkämme
Philippe Cordez
Golgotha in Mind. Charles the Bald and Carolingian Combs - The ivory comb “of Saint Heribert”, probably carved Metz around 870 today held Cologne’s Museum Schnütgen, features one of most elaborate representations Crucifixion. Yet it remains surprisingly little studied. Together, its function as a iconographic program imply an identification combed head with Golgotha, “place skull” that is, Adam, Christ new Adam. In light current scholarship on related objects, connections can be established Bald, whose imperial coronation Rome 875 involved zodiac signs (Victoria Albert Museum, London). Analyzing textual material evidence combs ninth tenth centuries, essay explores possibility Crucifixion was made connection Charles’s at 869, discusses comb’s later attribution to Archbishop Heribert Cologne (r. 999-1021).
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