id: 128158 accession number: 1951.152 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.152 updated: 2023-08-26 11:09:37.254000 Mold for a Eulogia (Blessing) Bread, 600s-900s. Byzantium, Palestine, Byzantine period, 7th-10th century. Wood; diameter: 8.8 x 1.9 cm (3 7/16 x 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Thirty-fifth anniversary gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mallon 1951.152 title: Mold for a Eulogia (Blessing) Bread title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 600s-900s creation date earliest: 600 creation date latest: 999 current location: 105 Byzantine creditline: Thirty-fifth anniversary gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mallon copyright: --- culture: Byzantium, Palestine, Byzantine period, 7th-10th century technique: wood department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Byzantine type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter: 8.8 x 1.9 cm (3 7/16 x 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: 35th Anniversary Exhibition opening date: 1951-06-20T04:00:00 35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951). title: Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-05-10T00:00:00 Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Arts of Christian Antiquity, University Art Gallery Notre Dame, Indiana (October 1-31, 1957). * Architectural Style in Miniature, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (August 1-November 30, 1959). * Exhibition of Orthodox Religious Art, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI (April-May, 1960). * Late Antique and Early Christian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (1977-1978). --- PROVENANCE (Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mallon, New York, NY, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art). date: ?-1951 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1951- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Medieval Christian pilgrims often traveled months or years to religious sites in the Holy Land and returned home with blessed mementos of their journey, such as vials of holy water, relics from saints, and even special loaves of bread. This mold was used to mark bread with an image of the Church of Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem; the bread was then distributed to pilgrims. digital description: wall description: It was a common early Christian practice to stamp images and inscriptions into loaves of bread using special molds. Representing the Church of the Holy Sepulcher on Mount Golgotha--the hill outside Jerusalem on which Christ was crucified and entombed--this wooden mold was probably used to stamp loaves of bread distributed to pilgrims visiting Jerusalem, in commemoration of their journey. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Wessel, Klaus, Marcell Restle, Birgitt Borkopp-Restle, Annegret Plontke-Lüning, and Andreas Pülz. Reallexikon zur byzantinischen Kunst. 1966. page number: p. 751 url: Galavaris, George. Bread and the Liturgy: The Symbolism of Early Christian and Byzantine Bread Stamps. 1970. page number: pp. 153-185, fig. 82 url: Krautheimer, Richard, and Slobodan Ćurčić. Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Eng: Penguin Books, 1986. page number: p. 65 url: Duval, Noel "Art Chretien, exposition au Metropolitan Museum de New York" Archeologia 120 (July 1978). page number: p. 40 url: Schapiro, Meyer. Late Antique, Early Christian and Mediaeval Art. New York: G. Braziller, 1979. page number: pp. 588-589, cat. no. 528 url: Krautheimer, Richard. Three Christian Capitals: Topography and Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. page number: p. 54, fig. 48 url: Wharton, Annabel Jane. Refiguring the Post Classical City: Dura Europos, Jerash, Jerusalem, and Ravenna. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. page number: pp. 96-7, fig. 31 url: Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550. München: Hirmer, 2007. page number: p. 60, no. 14 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: p. 56, cat. 11 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.152/1951.152_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.152/1951.152_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.152/1951.152_full.tif