SLS 301 Artifacts Project Assignment # 6

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"Pilgrim Flasks and Early Christian Pilgrimage"

ARTIFACTS

Three SAINT MENAS PILGRIMAGE FLASKS, with orant St. Menas flanked by kneeling camels. Mold-made terracotta. Byzantine Egypt, Abu Mena, 6th-7th century CE. (A1811; X56.30.37; X56.30.39)

• Duncan-Flowers, M. J.; E. D. Maguire, and H. Maguire, Art and The Holy Powers in the Early Christian House (1989).
  Reserve Call number NK 715 .M34 1989

  Vikan, G., "Byzantine Pilgrims' Art" in Heaven on Earth: Art and The Church In Byzantium, ed., L. Safran (1998).

  Reserve Call number N 7852.5.H43 1998

  Vikan, G., Byzantine Pilgrimage Art (Dumbarton Oaks 1982).

  Call number N 8180 .V54 1982

  Woods, David. St. Menas Web Site (1999)

  Dept. of Ancient Classics, University College Cork, Ireland

  http://www.ucc.ie/milmart/Menas.html