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Mortarium with spout

Mortarium with spout
© BA Antiquities Museum/M. Aly

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Mortarium with spout

Category:
Tools and equipment, food production equipment, mortaria
Date:
Graeco-Roman Period (332 BCE-395 CE)
Provenance:
Lower Egypt
Material(s):
Man made material, pottery (terracotta)
Height: 
6.8 cm;
diameter of the internal rim: 
29.1 cm;
diameter of outer rim: 
34 cm (38.2 with the spout)
Hall:
Nelson Island Collection, showcase 34



The information given here is subject to modification/update as a result of ongoing research.

References
  • Cécile Harlaut, “Aux origines d’Alexandrie et de sa production céramique, vases de contextes hellénistiques anciens, provenant d’Alexandrie, de l’île de Nelson (région de Canope), et de Plinthine (Chôra occidentale) 331-250 av. J.-C.”, in Cécile Harlaut and John W Hayes, Pottery in Hellenistic Alexandria, Études alexandrines 45 (Alexandria: Centre d’Études Alexandrines, 2018): 96; 148, fig. 28, no. 140.
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