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As Byzantine theologians promoted touch, sight, and proximity to sacred objects within the context of a religious system that was largely abstract and invisible, objects designed to heighten multisensorial experiences, like censers filled with aromatic incense or oil lamps and candles that gave off flickering light, became critical to the creation of a liturgical setting. Workshops emerged across the Mediterranean to produce Byzantine objects with lavish materials like metals and gems in order to express the emerging theology of the empire.","remarks":"MED3_22-T7-A2_WLA.pdf – Day One Cataloguing (Group chat for y1956-106, y1961-27, y1952-92, 2002-121, y1954-148, y1968-136)"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Museum purchased from Mathias Komor, New York in 1968.","remarks":null}],"media":[{"id":141405,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/INV63310","isprimary":0,"rank":2,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"Inventory Project"},{"id":15088,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/y1968-136","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[{"boilertext":"Slobodan Curcic and Archer St. Clair,<em> Byzantium at Princeton: Byzantine art and archaeology at Princeton University: catalogue of an exhibition at Firestone Library, Princeton University, August 1 through October 26, 1986</em>, (Princeton, NJ: Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton University Library, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, 1986).","citation":"Slobodan Curcic and Archer St. Clair,<em> Byzantium at Princeton: Byzantine art and archaeology at Princeton University: catalogue of an exhibition at Firestone Library, Princeton University, August 1 through October 26, 1986</em>, (Princeton, NJ: Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton University Library, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, 1986)., p. 91; cat. no. 89","date":1986,"id":2216,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/16649090"},{"boilertext":"A. Lazaridou, ed., <EM>Transition to Christianity: art of late antiquity, 3rd-7th century AD</EM>, (New York: Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation; Athens: In collaboration with the Byzantine and Christian Museum, 2011).","citation":"A. Lazaridou, ed., <EM>Transition to Christianity: art of late antiquity, 3rd-7th century AD</EM>, (New York: Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation; Athens: In collaboration with the Byzantine and Christian Museum, 2011).","date":2011,"id":1388,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/768167992"},{"boilertext":"Ioli Kalavrezou, Angeliki E. Laiou, et al., <EM>Byzantine women and their world, </EM>(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003).","citation":"Ioli Kalavrezou, Angeliki E. Laiou, et al., <EM>Byzantine women and their world, </EM>(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003)., p. 300; cat. no. 183","date":2002,"id":2315,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/51505381"},{"boilertext":"Claudia Nauerth, \"Nachlese von Thekla-Darstellungen\", in Guntram Koch, ed., <EM>Studien zur frühchristlichen Kunst</EM>, (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1982-).","citation":"Claudia Nauerth, \"Nachlese von Thekla-Darstellungen\", in Guntram Koch, ed., <EM>Studien zur frühchristlichen Kunst</EM>, (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1982-)., pp. 14-18.  Enarged illustration on pl. VI","date":1982,"id":2435,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/643008697"},{"boilertext":"David J. Goa, <span class=\"subfieldData\">Linda Distad and Matthew Wangler, <em>Anno Domini: Jesus through the Centuries,</em> (Edmonton: <span class=\"subfieldData\">Provincial Museum of Alberta, 2000),</span></span>","citation":"David J. Goa, <span class=\"subfieldData\">Linda Distad and Matthew Wangler, <em>Anno Domini: Jesus through the Centuries,</em> (Edmonton: <span class=\"subfieldData\">Provincial Museum of Alberta, 2000),</span></span>","date":2000,"id":5959,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/44495139"},{"boilertext":"Alfreda J. Murck, \"Acquisitions 1968\", <EM>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</EM> 27, no. 2 (1968): p. 94-105.","citation":"Alfreda J. 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