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reliquary

container for religious relics
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reliquary

Summary

reliquary ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,344 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • reliquary is a type of container[2].
  • reliquary is a type of visual artwork[3].
  • reliquary is a type of sacred vessel[4].
  • reliquary's Commons category is recorded as Reliquaries[5].
  • reliquary's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Reliquaries[6].
  • reliquary's Commons gallery is recorded as Reliquary[7].
  • reliquary's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[8].
  • reliquary's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[9].
  • reliquary's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[10].
  • reliquary's contains is recorded as relic[11].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include container[2], visual artwork[3], and sacred vessel[4].

Why It Matters

reliquary ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,344 views/month).[1] reliquary has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] reliquary is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). reliquary. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/reliquary
MLA “reliquary.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/reliquary.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_reliquary_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{reliquary}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/reliquary}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → container, visual artwork, sacred vessel
    Topic's main category → Category:Reliquaries
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 39178, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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