Standing Lamp with a Cross on a Pricket Stand

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5th century · Copper alloy · Medieval Art

Standing lamps decorated with crosses and supported on footed bases were common in the early Byzantine world. Bishop Theodoret of Cyrrhus in Syria (d. ca. 466) described Saint Symeon Stylites, who lived atop a column, as “this dazzling lamp, [who] as if placed on a lampstand, has sent out rays in all directions likes the sun.”

Artist

Unknown

Date

5th century

Medium

Copper alloy

Culture

Byzantine

Department

Medieval Art

Credit line

Fletcher Fund, 1961