Yellow-Green Hexagonal Glass Bottle with a Stylite Saint mid-5th–7th century Byzantine The stylite saints depicted on tall glass vessels made in Syria were men who renounced the world and lived atop pillars (styloi). Most renowned was Saint Symeon the Stylite the Elder (389–459), whose pillar on the mountain of Qal‘at Sem‘an, near Antioch, became the center of a large pilgrimage complex. Pilgrims collected dirt from the base of his Yellow-Green Hexagonal Glass Bottle with a Stylite Saint 468577

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