id:			147025
accession number:	1972.52.b
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.52.b
updated:		2023-08-23 22:25:12.206000

Pilgrim's Medallion with St. Symeon the Younger, c. 1100. Byzantium, Syria, early 12th Century. Lead; diameter: 5.7 x 0.4 cm (2 1/4 x 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 1972.52.b

title:				Pilgrim's Medallion with St. Symeon the Younger
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creation date:			c. 1100
creation date earliest:		1095
creation date latest:		1105
current location:		105 Byzantine
creditline:			Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund
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culture:	Byzantium, Syria, early 12th Century
technique:	lead
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Byzantine
type:		Metalwork
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measurements: Diameter: 5.7 x 0.4 cm (2 1/4 x 3/16 in.)
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Saint Symeon the Younger was a stylite saint, an early Christian ascetic who fled the world for the desert and, perched on a column, spent his days fasting and praying. The site of Symeon’s column attracted many pilgrims during and after his lifetime. Medallions like this one, showing Symeon atop his column on one side and a cross on the other, were taken home by pilgrims in commemoration of their visit and were believed to serve their owners as protective talismans.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Verdier, Philippe. "A Medallion of Saint Symeon the Younger." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 67, no. 1 (1980): 17-26.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 17; Mentioned: p. 17-26
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159656

	Evans, Helen C., and William D. Wixom. <em>The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261</em>. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 385-386
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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: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 60-61, no. 13
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