Canteen
a. How is this object a memento of a trip to the Holy Land?
b. What is the medium?
c. What does it illustrate?
d. Why are the illustrations significant?
e. What does it say about the patron?
Answers will vary.
a. It is an expensive version of the "pilgrim's flask" used on the journey to holy shrines either in the Holy Land or elsewhere.
b. Brass with Silver Inlay.
c. Christian scenes, the Madonna and Child and events from the New Testament. The narrative is to be read in a counterclockwise sequence attesting to the Ayyubid or Muslim craftsman.
d. The scenes signify the non-Islamic usage of this canteen, but it also indicates the value of commercialism in the region.
e. He was a man of wealth to command the services of an artisan-metalworker; he could afford to purchase a luxury item as a memento of his journey to the Holy Land.
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