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This shallow silver bowl is from a set of ten that were stacked upside-down inside the Suton Hoo burial chamber. They were made in the Eastern Mediterranean, possibly for religious use; their cross-shaped design may have had a Christian meaning. We don't know how the bowls were used after they arrived in Anglo-Saxon England, where Christianity was slowly taking hold. Donated by Mrs. Edith M. Pretty. Circa 500s to 600s CE. From the ship-burial mound 1 at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, England, UK. (The British Museum, London).
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