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Frankish Bone Container for Holy Oils in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010

Frankish Bone Container for Holy Oils in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010
Container for Holy Oils, carved 500–700
Northeastern France
Bone decorated with engraving and pigment
Overall 3 1/2 x 4 7/16 x 1 3/4 in. (8.9 x 11.3 x 4.5 cm)
Rogers Fund, 1965 (65.68.2)

This portable container for holy oils is decorated with incised circular patterns, some of which may have a cosmological meaning. Used for both baptisms and confirmations, the container could also be suspended from a chain worn around the neck.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/65.68.2
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