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Pilgrim Flask of Saint Menas   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Anonymous (Egypt)Unknown author
Title
Pilgrim Flask of Saint Menas
Description
English: St. Menas is dressed in a soldier's tunic, his arms extended in the early Christian pose of prayer. The patron saint of merchants and caravans, he stands between two kneeling camels. St. Menas was martyred in AD 296 and buried in the desert west of Alexandria (in northern Egypt). Pilgrims came to the saint's shrine for the healing powers of its sacred oil, carried away in these small flasks.
Date 6th century
date QS:P571,+550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
(Late Antique)
Medium terracotta
medium QS:P186,Q60424
Dimensions height: 9.9 cm (3.9 in); width: 6.6 cm (2.6 in); depth: 2.3 cm (0.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,9.95U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,6.65U174728
dimensions QS:P5524,2.38U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
48.2541
Place of creation Abu Mina, Egypt
Object history
  • Pete N. Nickolas (Helios Old World Antiquities), Westminster, Maryland, by purchase
  • Walters Art Museum, 1987, by purchase
Exhibition history Treasures of Heaven. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; The British Museum, London. 2010-2011.
Credit line Museum purchase, 1987
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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