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Silver finger-ringers were gifted or worn by both Omani men and women in a <em>Zār</em> ceremony to ward off evil.

Oman

 

silver

Diameter: 4.2 cm (1 5/8 in.)

 

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade

clevelandart.org/art/1916.377

Each of the four gospels in this book opens on a page with brilliantly illuminated borders depicting the author of the text as well as birds-principally peacocks, symbols of the immortality of the soul-and fountains, representing the fountain of life and the salvation of the soul. This volume consists of 428 leaves with texts in Greek. Its level of sophistication suggests that it was probably written and decorated in a monastery in Constantinople.

Byzantium, Constantinople

 

ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; leather binding

Sheet: 28 x 23 cm (11 x 9 1/16 in.)

 

Did you know...

Gospel Books were carried in procession through Byzantine churches.

 

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

clevelandart.org/art/1942.152.169.a

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This amulet is the head of a jackal. He holds a whip and crook, and is kneeling with snakes before his knees. He has the tail of a bird.

Egyptian

 

H: 2 7/16 x W: 7/8 x D: 2 1/16 in. (6.2 x 2.27 x 5.3 cm)

medium: bronze cast

culture: Egyptian

 

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

art.thewalters.org/detail/6652

H. 3 in. (7.6 cm)

 

medium: Porcelain

 

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 14.40.501a, b 1914

Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913

www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/41261

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medium: Tempera on watercolor paper

 

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 28.224 1928

Gift of Dr. Howard Van Rensselaer, 1928

www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/9675

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