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Byzantine tinned-copper paten ca. 10th – 11th century AD

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Byzantine tinned-copper paten
ca. 10th – 11th century AD; diam. cm 22,8 (9’’); With a central engraved Christ Pantocrator enthroned, holds the New Testament in his left hand and makes the gesture of teaching or of blessing with his right; the rim with a greek inscription:
ΛΑΒΕΤΕ ΦΑΓΕΤΕ ΤΙ (?) ΟΥΤΟ ΕΣΤΙΝ ΤΟ ΣΩΜΑ ΜΟΥ ΤΟ ΨΠΕΠ ΨΜΩΝ ΚΛΩΜΕΝΟΝ ΕΙΣ ΑΦΕΣΙΝ ΑΜΑΠΤΙΩΝ Ψ (Take eat, this is my body given for you for the remission of sins).
The inscription is taken from St. Matthew’s description of the Last Supper, Matthew 26:26-28. This type of plate would have been used as part of the Offertory as the bread and wine were placet on the altar prior to distribution.

PROVENANCE:
Property of a European gentleman living in London; acquired in the UK in the 1980s.
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