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| Keywords: Byzantine - Commercial Stamp - Walters 542838.jpg Stamps and seals indicating ownership or manufacture were very important during the Early Byzantine period Artisans and merchants applied stamps to their products and people used them in homes to secure closets and chests The loops on the back allowed the stamps to be worn as rings making them always available The Greek inscription on this example translates as Drink Good Wine It was used to seal large casks of wine century 6 8 Late Antique bronze cm 2 6 6 accession number 54 2838 32613 George Zacos Istanbul and Geneva by purchase Constantin A Marinescu Fortuna Fine Arts Ltd New York date of acquisition unknown by purchase Walters Art Museum 1993 by purchase Museum purchase 1993 Translation Drink Good Wine place of origin east Mediterranean Walters Art Museum license Byzantine and Early Russian art in the Walters Art Museum Decorative and applied arts of Byzantine Empire Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
