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Historical Archive: Sion (Sitten) Museums, canton of Valais, Switzerland

Valais Historical Museum, Valère (=VHM), also called Museum of Archaeology (Musée cantonal d'archéologie)
Diocesan Museum; Treasury of the Cathedral Chapter (=Sion CT)


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bracelets, Valais 2nd-1st c. BCE. VHM
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ivory medicine box converted to reliquary, Asclepius and Hygeia, late 5th c., VHM, loan from Sion CT. This work has its own page.
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Resurrection, ivory pyxis, 6th c., eastern Mediterranean, VHM, loan from Sion CT. This work has its own page.
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Adalricus reliquary, 8th c., Diocesan Museum Sion. This work has its own page.
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Altheus Reliquary 772-814, repoussé side, Diocesan Museum Sion. This work has its own page.
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Altheus Reliquary 772-814, enamel side, Diocesan Museum Sion. This work has its own page.
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Head/bust reliquary, c.1150, St. Peter? VHM. This work has its own page.
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Woven silk purse with strap, Spain 13th-14th c., length 12.2 cm, Sion CT purse 258
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Sion CT purse 258 without strap
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Knit silk purse, 14th c., Sion CT purse 269, which has its own page
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Knit silk purse, 14th c., Sion CT purse 270, which has its own page
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Knit silk purse, 14th c., Sion CT purse 271, which has its own page
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Knit silk purse, 14th c., Sion CT purse 272, which has its own page