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Historical Archive: Queen Fredegunda (Frédegonde, Fredegund, Fredegundis)

1160s or mid-1150s. Length 1.69 meters. Fredegunda died 586; wife of Chilperic I
Fragments of porphyry, serpentine, and marble inset with a binder in hollowed-out stone (reserved features originally painted) with copper divisions
from Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in Saint-Denis basilica since 1816


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full figure
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head and shoulders
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torso, arms, hands
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detail of inset stones
and stone and
copper divisions.
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higher resolution.