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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, silver-gilt
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
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

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 300

Description

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

[ Elias Bustros, Beirut (by 1940)]; [ Sleiman Abou Taam, Beirut and Switzerland (1965–1986)]
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What
Metal (59,369)

Metalwork (14,716)

Silver (14,057)

Gilt (9,043)

Chalices (151)
Where
Asia (68,073)

Syria (1,274)
When
A.D. 500-1000 (6,672)
In the Museum
Medieval Art (6,712)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
The Eastern Mediterranean, 500–1000 A.D.
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