Garment Decoration (""Clavi"")

4th-5th century (Early Byzantine)

2.5 cm 17.9 cm

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Images of wine jugs and grape vines were common on clavi (vertical strips of ornamentation). While the meaning was probably secular, vases and vines later evolved into a religious motif symbolizing eternal life or the "Tree of Life."These "clavi" are characteristic of the mono...

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Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Kelekian [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1980, by gift.
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