Pilgrimage Jug with Christian Symbols
Byzantine
578–636
- Medium
- Glass, mold-blown technique
- Dimensions
- 15 × 9.1 × 7 cm (5 7/8 × 3 9/16 × 2 3/4 in.)
- Genre
- vessel
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
mold-blown glassbyzantinevesselglassimperial (roman)glass appliquéinorganic materialChristian subjectsancient artblown glasspalestiniancontainers
About
Glass workshops outside the walls of Jerusalem mass-produced a series of hexagonal and octagonal jugs with Christian or Jewish symbols on their sides. The vessels with Christian symbols, like this example, have images of the cross alternating with diamond shapes. Such vessels were probably filled with oil from holy sites and sold to pilgrims.
