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| Keywords: Byzantine - Key - Walters 541023.jpg This type of key commonly used during the Byzantine period could be easily carried an important feature at a time when clothes had no pockets The hoop of the key fits like a finger ring and the short barrel can be folded into the palm of the hand Unlike the teeth on modern keys the slotted holes on this example are purely decorative while the small crosses were intended to protect the owner's possessions century 5 7 Late Antique bronze cm 9 3 5 3 1 4 accession number 54 1023 17343 William T / Henry Walters Collection Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Beyond the Pharaohs Egypt and the Copts in the Second to Seventh Centuries A D Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design Providence; The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1989 place of origin Egypt Walters Art Museum license Ancient Roman art in the Walters Art Museum Decorative and applied arts of Byzantine Empire Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
