Pilgrim Flask of Saint Menas
Since the beginning of Christianity, believers gathered over saints' tombs in search of spiritual and physical healing. Little flasks from the eastern Mediterranean region attest to the popularity of pilgrimages to saints' shrines. Pilgrims would fill these flasks with oil or...
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Purchased by Maurice Bouvier [1901-1981], Alexandria or Cairo; given to Cleopatra Dibble, Washington, DC, 1950; given to Walters Art Museum, 2014.
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Medium
unglazed buff clay
Genre
flasks
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