Stone vessel
- Accession Number
- W1504
- Current Location
- House of Life (first floor), Stone case
- Object Types
- Receptacle/vessel, Jar | Implements and utensils, Cosmetic and medical equipment and implements, Kohl, Kohl pot
- Classification
- Aston type 230
- Period
- Graeco-Roman Period
- Material
- Stone/minerals (Travertine (Egyptian alabaster))
- Measurements
- Height: 165mm
- Number of Elements
- 1
Licensing details
This image may be used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. For uses not covered under the Creative Commons license, or to license images for commercial uses,
please contact the Egypt Centre.
- Description
-
A stone ointment jar (Aston type 230), dating to the Roman Period. Such types do not date to before the mid second century BCE.
- Bibliography
-
A Masson, 'Stone vessels, Nautakratis: Greeks in Egypt', British Museum, p. 5.
- Wellcome Number
- 24630 L
- Other Identity
- W334b
- Previous Owners
- Ellinor Frances Berens (1842–1924) | Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936)
- Acquisition
- Long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)
- Last modified: 15 Feb 2021