Detail of the Fulda Portable Altar: St. Blaise and Melchizedech

Fulda, Germany, first third of 11th century
Silver over wood
Musée National de l'Age Médiévale, Paris

St. Blaise carries a crozier and wears a chasuble with a Y-shaped orphrey. Melchizedech holds something circular that presumably represents the bread and wine which he sacrificed in Genesis 14:17-19 and which is in Christian typology a type of the eucharistic elements.

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Photographed at the museum by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.