Syrian, ca. 500 - 600. Terracotta stamp for Eulogia bread. "There was a custom in monasteries of distributing in the refectories, after Mass, the eulogiae of bread blessed at the Mass" (Catholic Encyclopedia). Specimen in the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada.


Syrian, ca. 500 - 600. Plaster stamp for Eucharist bread. Specimen in the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada.

Syrian, ca. 500 - 600. Terracotta stamp for Eucharist bread. Specimen in the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada.