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Votive Polycandelon (Lamp Holder)

500s

Byzantium, Byzantine period, 6th century

gold
Overall: 13.4 x 6.4 cm (5 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1953.639
Location: 105 Byzantine
  • (Mrs. Paul Mallon, New York).
  • Milliken, William. "Byzantine Goldsmith Work." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 41, no. 8 (October 1954): 190-192. Mentioned: p. 191 www.jstor.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 61 archive.org
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