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| Keywords: Byzantine - Saint Panteleimon - Walters 41227.jpg Although there is no inscription the figure on this small plaque can be identified by his curly hair and the lancet he holds as Saint Panteleimon a physician who died a martyr's death in Nicomedia ca 305 for being a Christian As other representations suggest the saint would have carried a medical box in his now missing left hand Steatite relief plaques were either mounted and worn on the chest or used to decorate the wooden frames of larger icons They sometimes show traces of gilding as this one does century 11 Medieval steatite with traces of gilding cm 4 5 5 1 0 7 accession number 41 227 24297 Henry Walters New York date of acquisition unknown by purchase Sadie Jones Mrs Henry Walters New York 1931 by inheritance Joseph Brummer New York 1941 by purchase Miss Julia R Rogers Baltimore 1941 by purchase Walters Art Museum Gift of Miss Julia R Rogers formerly part of the Walters Collection 1941 Early Christian and Byzantine Art Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1947 place of origin Byzantine Empire Walters Art Museum license Byzantine and Early Russian art in the Walters Art Museum Byzantine stone reliefs Decorative and applied arts of Byzantine Empire Reliefs of Saint Pantaleon Byzantine steatite | ||||
