The Cundpald Chalice
European Museums, Budapest History Museum, HungaryThe Cundpald Chalice
The Christian conversion in Transdanubia began at the end of the 8th century. Its memory is held, among others, by a copper-gilt chalice. The inscription on its knop +CUNDPALD FECIT (Cundpald made) might refer to the man who commissioned and paid for it. The chalice was made in a Bavarian monastery for a high-ranking clergyman, probably for a missionary bishop c. 770-830. In the Carolingian period it was transformed, and used as a chalice hanging above the altar on three little chains. Finally, under unknown circumstances it fell into the stream Ikva near Petohaza, and was later discovered during the correction of the watercourse in 1879.
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