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LOT 0793
Byzantine Bronze Bread Stamp Group
6TH-7TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/2 in. (40.8 grams total, 38 mm each).
Comprising: one sub-rectangular in form with Greek capital letters (Mi, Iota, Iota, Tau and Tau, Iota, Eta) in raised relief, suspension lug to reverse; a leaf-shaped stamp with lugs to the perimeter and three raised letters to the centre, suspension lug to reverse. [2]
Provenance
Acquired before 2000.
From the collection of a European gentleman living in the UK.
Literature
Cf. for similar letters, a stamp published by Dalton, O.M., Catalogue of Early Christian Antiquities and Objects from the Christian East in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum, London, 1901, no.491.
Footnotes
The larger bronze stamps are generally known in the relevant literature as bread stamps. These were used on the bread consecrated during the Holy Liturgy and then given to the believers as the Body of Christ during the Holy Communion, as well as to the bread which was given as a present at the end of the Liturgy, as 'Blessed bread' or Antidoron. Similar seals are still used today in the Orthodox Church.
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LOT 0793
Byzantine Bronze Bread Stamp Group
Estimate £120 - 170€140 - 200 (for guidance only)$160 - 230 (for guidance only)
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