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‘Supplied for the journey to heaven’: a moment of West-East cultural exchange: ceramic chalices from Byzantine graves1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Eric A. Ivison*
Affiliation:
The College of Staten Island The City University of New York

Abstract

This paper discusses the historical significance of goblets, here identified as chalices, which were found in late Byzantine graves. Comparable goblets are known from other Byzantine burials, but they are absent from the funerary record prior to the thirteenth century. The practice of placing chalices in graves is found in the Latin West, however, where it was restricted to clergy. This paper proposes that the custom of funerary chalices was adopted by Byzantine clergy in emulation of their Latin counterparts, but that it was assimilated into existing Orthodox practice to meet specific hierarchical and eschatological needs.

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Copyright © The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham 2000

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Footnotes

1

This essay is an expanded version of a paper given at the 1996 Byzantine Studies Conference, held at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Twenty-Second Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Abstracts of Papers (October 24-27, 1996, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 40. This paper has undergone a slow and often painful evolution and I am indebted to the enriching comments, knowledge and insights of friends and colleagues, including Theodora Antonopoulou, Eunice Dautermann-Maguire, Sharon Gerstel, Tia Kolbaba, Sally McKee, Henry Maguire, David Olster, and Patrick Viscuso.

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