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| Keywords: Egyptian - Pilgrim Flask of Saint Menas - Walters 482541.jpg St Menas is dressed in a soldier's tunic his arms extended in the early Christian pose of prayer The patron saint of merchants and caravans he stands between two kneeling camels St Menas was martyred in AD 296 and buried in the desert west of Alexandria in northern Egypt Pilgrims came to the saint's shrine for the healing powers of its sacred oil carried away in these small flasks century 6 Late Antique terracotta cm 9 95 6 65 2 38 accession number 48 2541 17342 Pete N Nickolas Helios Old World Antiquities Westminster Maryland by purchase Walters Art Museum 1987 by purchase Museum purchase 1987 Treasures of Heaven The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; The British Museum London 2010-2011 place of origin Abu Mina Egypt Walters Art Museum license Ancient Roman art in the Walters Art Museum Saint Menas flasks Coptic Pilgrimage | ||||
