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Autun: Merovingian glass chalice mold with chi-rho inscription
Autun: Merovingian glass chalice mold (Musee Rolin; photo Athena Review 2012)
This
limestone mold from Autun (inv. B-2372) was designed to make glass cups
or chalices. In the center is the Chi-Rho design, and around it the
Latin inscription Calicem salutaris accipiam, meaning "The cup of salvation".
Such cups were used in Early Christian communion services during the Frankish or Merovingian period, which replaced the Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
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