Ampulla

29-102-176

Location: On Display in the Eastern Mediterranean Gallery

From: Israel | Beth Shean

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number 29-102-176
Current Location Eastern Mediterranean Gallery - On Display
Provenience Israel | Beth Shean
Archaeology Area Level II, LTE, House III, Cistern 1
Period Byzantine
Date Made 300-700 CE
Section Near Eastern
Materials Ceramic
Description

Brown ware, yellowish wash on upper surface; fragment of the discus of a lamp bearing a figure wearing a short skirt; his/her arms are out-stretched and in the right hand and he/she holds a bird/lion/camel/slain animal, on each side of the human figure's head is an illegible Greek inscription, the whole scene is bordered with a band of dots, the figure could be St. Menas, Cybele or the Near Eastern Master of the Animals motif.

Fitzgerald: "Pilgrim flask or ampulla (fragment, one side only) of pink ware, from Cistern I, under House III, with moulded figure of St. Menas, orans, between two kneeling camples; inscription in Greek" (see publication for the Greek)

Length 7.5 cm
Width 8.5 cm
Depth 0.8 cm
Credit Line Expedition to Beth Shean (Beisan); Clarence Fisher, 1921-1928
Other Number 186 - Field No SF

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