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Copper Alloy Faucet and Conduit in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2010

Copper Alloy Faucet and Conduit in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2010
Copper Alloy Faucet and Conduit
Byzantine
Made 500-700

Accession # 47.100.41a, b

Byzantine cities often drew their water supplies from aqueducts many miles in length. The cross on this faucet may have been meant to bless the water or protect the drinker.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

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