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Silver wine strainer

Silver wine strainer





Artist : Anonymous

Relationship with : Jésus-Christ

Date : approx. between 500 and 650

Material : Silver
Acquisition : The Attarouthi Treasure (1956)
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Center
Ground Floor
Item 14 on 80
Objet(s) d'Art
Object of worship

Vitrine : V01

Area related
Attarouthi (Syrie)

Description   

Vine was poured into the chalices thought a strainer to remove impurities before it was used in the Eucharistic service. This strainer is pierced in a pattern reproducing one type of Christogram, a monogram of the initials of Christ's name in Greek, I (Iesous), X (Christos).
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Silver wine strainer
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