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.

CONDITION

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