Seir Kieran Headstone Arma Christi3D Model
Seir Kieran monastery (OF039-003001-) founded by St. Kieran (Ciarán) the elder in the fifth century. Late 18th-century headstone erected in Seir Kieran graveyard, Co. Offaly by Peter Brooder in memory of his father Hugh Brooder. Above the inscription, the top of the stone is decorated with the instruments of the passion also known as Arma Christi (Weapons of Christ). The instruments of the Passion are a set of objects used to symbolise the Passion, that is the sufferings and death of Jesus. The instruments on thisb headstone depict the crucified Christ on a Latin cross with stepped base, INRI above the head flanked on either side by a pair of dice and ointment jar, ladder, pincers gripping a nail, a claw hammer, Peter the swordsman? on a prancing horse holding a sword aloft, Roman soldier Longinus with the lance piercing the side of Christ, crowing rooster standing on a pot, scourge, hyssop, and 30 pieces of silver beneath. The inscription is framed within a decorative foliage border, with flowering head.
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