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Crozier of Abbot Erkanbald
Not on view
Croziers—staffs shaped like shepherds’ crooks—are symbols of office for bishops and abbots. This example is a tour de force of narrative imagery depicting the Fall. On the stem and crook are a budding tree of twisted branches, Eve offering an apple, and Adam eating the forbidden fruit. The scene in the volute appears to show God condemning Adam after the Fall.
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