High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Alfred Jewel is an Anglo-Saxon ornament dating from the late 9th century, discovered in 1693. It was made in the reign of King Alfred the Great and is inscribed "AELFRED MEC HEHT GEWYRCAN", meaning "Alfred ordered me made". It is about 2? inches (6.1 cm) long, made of filigreed gold, enclosing a highly polished piece of clear quartz "rock crystal" beneath which is set a cloisonne enamel plaque, with an image of a man, perhaps Christ, with ecclesiastical symbols. The figure "closely resembles the figure of Sight in the Fuller Brooch, but it is most commonly thought to represent Christ as Wisdom or Christ in Majesty". The Ashmolean Museum labels it specifically as a representation of "Sight", and suggests its purpose was to aid reading. It was at one time attached to a thin rod or stick based on the hollow socket at its base. The back is a flat gold plate engraved with "an acanthus-like plant motif". Данное издание представляет собой...

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