Armilla

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Armilla (disambiguation) .

Armilla of a coronation regalia, Maasland 1170–1180 ( Musée du Louvre , Paris)

An armilla (Latin; plural: armillae ) is a silver, sometimes gold bracelet . It was given to soldiers in ancient Rome as an award .

It is also found occasionally on medieval splendor armor, there often as a gold-plated and painted upper arm trimmings.

Two splendid armillae, which presumably come from the environment of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa and which are now kept in the Louvre (Paris) and in the Germanic National Museum (Nuremberg), are considered outstanding examples of the Maasland goldsmith and enamel art of the 12th century.

literature

• Yann Le Bohec : awards, military. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 2, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01472-X , Sp.?.
• Real Lexicon of Germanic Antiquity . ISBN 3-11-017733-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Christine Descatoire, Marc Gil, Marie-Lys Marguerite: Une renaissance. L'art entre Flandre et Champagne, 1150-1250 . Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-7118-6080-7 .
2. ^ Frank Matthias Kammel : Germanisches Nationalmuseum - Guide through the collections . Verlag des Germanisches Nationalmuseums, Nuremberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-936688-67-2 .