Cation-Incense

Censer with bronze hand handle with carved patterns around the perimeter. In its handle it has a Byzantine cross with enamel colors. It is also decorated with six bells. The cation is a kind of sitting censer, known since the early Christian times. In the post-Byzantine period its use was limited mainly to monasteries and funeral ceremonies. It is a hand censer used as a kind of cymbal that accompanies chanting. Let my prayer be as incense before me