Cleveland Museum of Art
Pilgrim's Medallion with Saint Symeon the Younger
- Date
- c. 1100
- Medium
- lead
- Culture
- Byzantium, Syria, Byzantine period, early 12th Century
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 147023
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
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, were taken home by pilgrims in commemoration of their visit and were believed to serve their owners as protective talismans.
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- Credit line
- Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1972: Galerie für Griechische, Römische und Byzantinische Kunst, Frankfurt | 1972–: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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