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The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice
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The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice

Date: late 6th–early 7th century
Geography: Made in Attarouthi, Syria
Culture: Byzantine
Medium: Silver and gilded silver
Dimensions: Overall: 8 1/16 × 5 15/16 in., 13oz. (20.5 × 15.1 cm, 369g) Diam. of foot: 3 9/16 in. (9 cm) Diam. of knop: 1 9/16 in. (3.9 cm) Capacity of cup: 1100 ml
Classification: Metalwork-Silver
Credit Line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and Henry J. and Drue E. Heinz Foundation, Norbert Schimmel, and Lila Acheson Wallace Gifts, 1986
Accession Number: 1986.3.10
On view in Gallery 300
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The figure carrying a Gospel book and swinging a censer to cense and honor the text is probably Saint Stephen. One of the first seven deacons of the Christian church and its first martyr (Acts of the Apostles 6 and 7), he was a popular saint throughout the Christian world in this period.
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: [in Greek:] Of [ the Church of ] Saint John of the village of Attarouthi

  • Provenance

    From Attarouthi, Syria; [ Elias Bustros, Beirut (by 1940)]; [ Sleiman Abou Taam, Beirut and Switzerland (1965–1986)]

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