Simeon Stylites, end of 6th century
Gilded silver
Height: 26.9 cm; width: 25.5 cm
Louvre museum, Paris, France
Simeon Stylites was a Syriac ascetic saint who achieved notability for living 37 years on a small platform on top of a pillar near Aleppo. The Greek word style means “pillar”. He is known formally as Simeon Stylites the Elder.
Simeon was born in Sis, in the Roman province of Cilicia. After the division of the Roman Empire in 395 A.D., Cilicia became part of the Eastern Roman Empire…
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