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
9. reliquaries

Anotations

Scope note:

Reliquaries designed in the shape of the relic they were ostensibly intended to contain, which may be a piece of clothing, an object or fragment of an object, a body part, a saint's blood, or other artifact.