Standing Lamp with a Cross on a Pricket Stand 5th century Byzantine Standing lamps decorated with crosses and supported on footed bases were common in the early Byzantine world. Bishop Theodoret of Cyrrhus in Syria (d. ca. 466) described Saint Symeon Stylites, who lived atop a column, as “this dazzling lamp, [who] as if placed on a lampstand, has sent out rays in all directions likes the sun.”. Standing Lamp with a Cross on a Pricket Stand 468573

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