Relief
The origins, date and content of this 21cm high cast in the collection at Halle remain obscure despite many enquiries and much research. It is curved in a convex. In the upper part one sees three people surrounded by battlements. The lower part is reserved for a man with a drawn, but lowered sword besides a large body. Efforts to establish an iconographical decision have proved difficult because it is difficult to determine exactly what is shown wriggling next to the man. If it is a dragon, the man could be St. George, who defeated a dragon threatening a town by aloowing him to follow the king’s daughter into the town and then slaying him with his sword. Four pairs of oxen then pulled the dragon out of the town, and the townspeople were saved. As long as we cannot establish what is represented beside the man in the lower part of the piece by locating the original in a museum or church treasure, we are left to hypothesise about the details of this piece.