The Holy Land Ampulla of Sant Pere de Casserres - a Liturgical and Art-Historical interpretation Authors Lily Arad Abstract The ampulla found in the main altar of the monastery church of Sant Pere of Casserres, now part of a private collection, is a small metal flask typical of the Holy Land in its form, measures, material and decoration. Its concise decoration is a clear reference to a locus sanctus. On its obverse it presents the crucified Christ clad in a perizonium, with Greek inscriptions in the spaces above and below the arms of the Cross, and on its reverse it shows a Greek cross with flared arms. The style and workmanship are rather rough, as in many metal and clay eulogiae produced in Jerusalem and other centers of pilgrimage, both because of the plebeian medium and material, the mass production and distribution, and because these devotional objects mainly addressed the wish of pilgrims to encapsulate the holiness of the place and their prayers there, whereas aesthetical aspects were not important. The ampulla of Sant Pere de Casserres has been dated to the sixth or early seventh century like the well known Holy Land ampullae at Monza and Bobbio, and to the early eighth century, in both cases with no argumentation. This paper offers a re-evaluation of the dating of the ampulla, on the basis of iconographic and stylistic parallels of the figurative motifs, and on a new reading of the inscriptions. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads Text complet (Català) Published 2007-11-28 Issue Vol. 15 (2007) Section Studies License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Miscel·lània Litúrgica Catalana authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Societat Catalana d'Estudis Litúrgics (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Miscel·lània Litúrgica Catalana.Authors answer to Societat Catalana d'Estudis Litúrgics for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.Societat Catalana d'Estudis Litúrgics declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.The journal Miscel·lània Litúrgica Catalana is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.