The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice

Unknown

500–650 · Silver and gilded silver · Medieval Art

With a youthful Christ with a cruciform halo, a deacon saint with a censer (probably Saint Stephen), the Virgin Mary in orant pose, and a youthful saint with staff Inscribed in Greek: In completion of a vow and for the salvation of him whose name is known unto the Lord

Artist

Unknown

Date

500–650

Medium

Silver and gilded silver

Culture

Byzantine

Department

Medieval Art

Credit line

Purchase, Rogers Fund and Henry J. and Drue E. Heinz Foundation, Norbert Schimmel, and Lila Acheson Wallace Gifts, 1986