Category:
Containers and related objects, vessels, olpes
Date:
Graeco-Roman Period, Ptolemaic Period (323-31 BCE)
Provenance:
Lower Egypt, Alexandria, Nelson Island
Material(s):
Man made material, pottery (terracotta)
Height:
13.4 cm;
diameter of the rim:
3.1 cm;
max. diameter of the body:
5.2 cm;
diameter of the base:
3.3 cm
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): 77; 140, fig. 20, no. 114.