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Mold for a Eulogia (Blessing) Bread
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It was a common early Christian practice to stamp images and inscriptions into loaves of bread using special molds. Representing the Church of the Holy Sepulcher on Mount Golgotha--the hill outside Jerusalem on which Christ was crucified and entombed--this wooden mold was probably used to stamp loaves of bread distributed to pilgrims visiting Jerusalem, in commemoration of their journey.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineMold for a Eulogia (Blessing) Bread, 600s-900s. Byzantium, Palestine, Byzantine period, 7th-10th century. Wood; diameter: 8.8 x 1.9 cm (3 7/16 x 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Thirty-fifth anniversary gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mallon, 1951.152
