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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 362261, member: 2844&quot;]You could call it an ark in the sense of the Latin-derived arc, a box or chest. In this case the chest contains relics, so it is also a reliquary. </p><p>Reliquaries of this size and in this style are typical of the Maasland cultural region of southeastern Netherlands, eastern Belgium, and the border region of Germany, notably Aachen. They were made during the Romanesque period, 11th-13th century.</p><p>The colloquial name for this particular reliquary is &quot;noodkist&quot;, which roughly translates to emergency or distress chest. It was always carried through the town (Maastricht) in times of extreme danger or hardship, in the belief that St Servatius would save the town.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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