where to find

Storeroom

Wine vessel (Askos)

Category:

Containers and related objects, vessels, askoi

Date:

Graeco-Roman Period, Ptolemaic Period, first half of the 3rd cent. BCE

Provenance:

Upper Egypt, Fayoum, Umm El-Brigat (Tebtonis/Tebtunis) (excavations of the Ifao and the University of Milan, 1996 season)

Material(s):

Man made material, pottery (terracotta)

Height:

10.3 cm;

Diameter:

13.2 cm

where to find:

Storeroom

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

References

Claudio Gallazzi and Gisèle Hadji-Minaglou, Trésors inattendus: 30 ans de fouilles et de coopération à Tebtynis (Fayoum), Bibliothèque générale 57 (Cairo: Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, 2019): 91, no. 33.

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