Baptismal Font Lid

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Culture Byzantine

Title Baptismal Font Lid

Date 400–700 CE

Medium Bronze

Dimensions Overall: 6 3/8 x 7 15/16 in. (16.2 x 20.2 cm)

Credit Line Burton Y. Berry Collection, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 71.20

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During the Coptic period in Byzantine Egypt many cultures and religious traditions influenced one another. Geometric pattern and organic, nature-based forms were popular and utilized by practitioners of the Greco-Roman, Ancient Egyptian, and the Christian religions.

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"Baptismal Font Lid | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=71.20