id:			128158
accession number:	1951.152
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.152
updated:		2024-03-26 01:58:17.841000

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
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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
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culture:	Byzantium, Palestine, Byzantine period, 7th-10th century
technique:	wood
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Byzantine
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Diameter: 8.8 x 1.9 cm (3 7/16 x 3/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		35th Anniversary Exhibition
	opening date:   1951-06-20T04:00:00
	<i>35th Anniversary Exhibition</i>. 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
	<i>Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. 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).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>The Arts of Christian Antiquity</em>, University Art Gallery Notre Dame, Indiana (October 1-31, 1957).', 'opening_date': '1931-10-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Architectural Style in Miniature</em>, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (August 1-November 30, 1959).', 'opening_date': '1959-08-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Exhibition of Orthodox Religious Art</em>, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI (April-May, 1960).', 'opening_date': '1960-04-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Late Antique and Early Christian Art</em>, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (1977-1978).', 'opening_date': '1977-01-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mallon, New York, NY, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art).
	date: ?-1951
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1951-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Wessel, Klaus, Marcell Restle, Birgitt Borkopp-Restle, Annegret Plontke-Lüning, and Andreas Pülz. <em>Reallexikon zur byzantinischen Kunst.</em> 1966.
	page number: 	p. 751
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	Galavaris, George. <em>Bread and the Liturgy: The Symbolism of Early Christian and Byzantine Bread Stamps. </em>1970.
	page number: 	pp. 153-185, fig. 82
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	Krautheimer, Richard, and Slobodan Ćurčić. <em>Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture.</em> Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Eng: Penguin Books, 1986.
	page number: 	p. 65
	url:		

	Duval, Noel "Art Chretien, exposition au Metropolitan Museum de New York" <em>Archeologia </em>120 (July 1978).
	page number: 	p. 40
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	Schapiro, Meyer. <em>Late Antique, Early Christian and Mediaeval Art</em>. New York: G. Braziller, 1979.
	page number: 	pp. 588-589, cat. no. 528
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	Krautheimer, Richard. <em>Three Christian Capitals: Topography and Politics.</em> Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.
	page number: 	p. 54, fig. 48
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	Wharton, Annabel Jane. <em>Refiguring the Post Classical City: Dura Europos, Jerash, Jerusalem, and Ravenna</em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
	page number: 	pp. 96-7, fig. 31
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	Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550.</em> München: Hirmer, 2007.
	page number: 	p. 60, no. 14
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein.<em> Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.
	page number: 	p. 56, cat. 11
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