Vienna Treasury

This is the royal dog collar.

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This is a royal glove.

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This is a royal water jug.

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This is the royal Bible.

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This is a 2680 caret emerald carved into an oil container (not officially the royal oil container).

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These are the coronation vestments of Emperor Ferdinand I. The golden winged lion is the symbol of Venice. The snake eating a baby is the symbol of Milan.

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This is a unicorn horn. It seems like it would make a unicorn more awkward than graceful, especially in the forest.image

Unicorn horns look a lot like Narwhal tusks. In fact they have the same DNA!

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Not all of them were that long.

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This bowl became world famous because the word “XRISTO” is clearly written in the natural texture of the stone.

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It is supposed to be easier to see from this angle. We never did figure out what they are looking at.

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This is a piece of Jesus’s underpants.

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It appears to be from the exactly the same piece of fabric as the piece of this bit of the tablecloth from the last supper.

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The similarity apparently didn’t concern Medieval relic collectors. But then neither did the popularity of tablecloths and embroidered loincloths in 1st century Palestine.