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The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice
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This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 300
This group of fifteen objects includes chalices, censers, a strainer, and a eucharistic dove. These silver liturgical objects are a fragmentary but nonetheless resplendent testimony to the material prosperity and religious devotion of a Christian community in the portion of the early Byzantine Empire that fell to Islam in the seventh century.
Inscription: [in Greek:] Of [the Church of] Saint Stephen of the village of Attarouthi
[ Elias Bustros, Beirut (by 1940)]; [ Sleiman Abou Taam, Beirut and Switerland (1965–1986)]
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