Pilgrim's Medallion with St. Symeon the Younger

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Pilgrim's Medallion with St. Symeon the Younger

Date
c. 1100
Medium
lead
Culture
Byzantium, Syria
Department
Medieval Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
147025

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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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Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund

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