Four Treasures Reference Database
Record No. 4914
Die Steine und Fassungen von Ring und Anhaenger der hl. Hemma aus dem Dome zu Gurk in Kaernten; 1. Teil, Die Steine
The Stones and Settings of the Ring and Pendant of Saint Hemma from the Cathedral of Gurk in Carinthia; Part 1, The Stones
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Meixner and Heinz (1952) Die Steine und Fassungen von Ring und Anhaenger der hl. Hemma aus dem Dome zu Gurk in Kaernten; 1. Teil, Die Steine. [The Stones and Settings of the Ring and Pendant of Saint Hemma from the Cathedral of Gurk in Carinthia; Part 1, The Stones] Carinthia II, Jg. 142 (Car. II, Jg. 62, H. 1), pp. 81–84.
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corundum, quality.10, history.1, gems
A laboratory examination of an unpolished gemstone from one of the St. Hemma jewels (11th century) of the Gurk cathedral, Carinthia, Austria, showed it to be corundum with rutile inclusions, not yellow quartz (false topaz) as labeled. The source of the stone was probably a Far Eastern locality.