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LOT 1055
Byzantine Terracotta Pilgrim's Holy Water Ampula with St Menas
5TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
3 3/4 in. (106 grams, 96 mm).
Hollow body discoid in profile and lentoid in section with thick loop handles to the shoulders, low-relief scene of a nimbate man between beasts to obverse, similar flanked by crosses pommee to reverse.
Provenance
From a Scottish gentleman’s collection, Glasgow, formed from the early 2000s.
Literature
Cf. Wamser, L., Die Welt von Byzanz - Europas Östliches Erbe, München, 2004, items 286-289, for type.
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LOT 1055
Byzantine Terracotta Pilgrim's Holy Water Ampula with St Menas
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
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