Pilgrim's Ampulla with the Ascension (back)
c. 600
Maker Unknown
Medieval Art
Pilgrim's Ampulla with the Ascension (back), c. 600. Byzantium; Palestine, early Byzantine period, early 7th Century. Tin-lead alloy with leather fragments; overall: 6.3 x 4.6 x 1.5 cm (2 1/2 x 1 13/16 x 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1999.46.b
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Formatted Medium
- tin-lead alloy with leather fragments
- Dimensions
- Overall: 6.3 x 4.6 x 1.5 cm (2 1/2 x 1 13/16 x 9/16 in.)
- Departments
- Medieval Art
- Accession Number
- 1999.46.b
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe, Bavarian Nationalmuseum, Munich (5/10/2007 - 9/16/2007), the J. Paul Getty Musuem, Los Angeles (10/30/2007 - 1/20/2008) and Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (2/13/2009 - 6/7/2009): "Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art"<br>CMA, October 17, 2010 - January 17, 2011, Walters Art Museum February 13 - May 15, 2011: "Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe," cat. no., 23.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 105 Byzantine
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