Pilgrim Token of Saint Symeon

6th-7th century (Late Antique)

2.2 cm 2.8 cm 1.2 cm

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This token depicts the face of Symeon the Elder (d. 459), one of the early stylite saints (stylos is Greek for "column"), who for years stood in prayer atop a column in the Syrian desert. The columns of St. Symeon the Elder and his imitator, St. Symeon the Younger (d. 592), w...

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Simon Bendall, London, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1991, by purchase.
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