Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Containers (hierarchy name)
5. containers (receptacles)
6. [containers by function or context]
7. ceremonial containers
8. liturgical containers

Narrower term/s

• speaking reliquaries
• body-part reliquaries
• reliquary monstrances
• chasse reliquaries[+]
  • reliquiari a cassetta
• reliquary busts
• staurothekes
• lipsanothecas
• phylacteries (reliquaries)

Anotations

Scope note:

Containers for safeguarding or exhibiting relics, which are personal items or parts of items, or parts of a corpse of a holy person, saint, or deity. Reliquaries vary in small boxes to large objects, sometimes in the shape of the enclosed relic. For places in which devotion is paid to relics or holy objects, use "shrines (structures)."