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Seal-matrix for Adolf von Epstein, Archdeacon of Trier; bronze; circular.
Obverse: Female figure standing, facing, wearing a long dress and her hands above her head grasping a cross-bar resting on side posts. On either side an executioner seizing…

Four oval scenes, each related to religious events or saints celebrated in February; from left to right and top to bottom, a soldier shearing the breast of a young female saint tied to a pillar (St Agatha's Day); a man armed with a brand and burning…

Plate 18: Martyrdom scenes with St Agatha being tied to a pillar in foreground, her sheared breasts lying in front of her, the Popes Fabian and Cornelius being beheaded in left background, St Tryphon hung from a tree and beaten in left background,…

Church martyrs, with in the foreground St Agatha, tied to a stake and having her breasts cut by an executioner; beyond, at right, St Tryphon, hanging upside down from a tree, and Sts Fabian and Cornelius being beheaded; at left, St Abdon and Sennen…

St Agatha; kneeling to left in front of a prison, with one severed breast, praying to a vision of St Peter standing blessing her; behind to left she is roasted alive on hot coals; within an oval frame and with a vertical panel of ornamental…

St Agatha standing between two trees, her left arm raised and tied to a third tree in the middle; copy in reverse after Marcantonio
Engraving
Height: Height: 87 millimetres
Width: Width: 55 millimetres
Inscription content: Handwritten inscription…

Madonna and Child with saints, with the Virgin sitting on an elevated throne with Christ child on her lap; below, at right, St Barbara and a monk, and at left a female saint (St Agatha?) with a dish resting on the pedestal, St Lawrence with his…