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A. Grabar, Martyrium-Recherches sur le Culte des Reliques et l'Art Chretien Antique (London, 1972), vol. 2, pl. XV, nos. 3 and 9.
This Coptic censer, dating to the end of the Byzantine period, portrays the tomb of Jesus with columns, entrances and a dome. A cross replaces the knob depicted on other Byzantine representations of the sepulchre dome. The motifs are similar to that on the Byzantine ampulla (see photograph).