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Clay St Menas flask

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Title/s	Clay St Menas flask
Category	vessel
Name	flask
Description	pilgrim flask, with St Menas on one side and man in Roman soldier costume on other side. Pilgrim flasks stored oil from the lamps burning over the graves of Coptic saints.
Production Notes	mid 4th to mid 7th century AD
Field Collection	Egypt
Dimensions	diameter 4.9 cm length 7.2 cm
Period	Coptic
Date	A.D. 341 — A.D. 660
Provenance	bequeathed: Whyte, Edward Towry 1932 (Filtered for: Antiquities)
Documentation	Bourriau, J.D. (1981) Umm El-Ga`ab : pottery from the Nile Valley before the Arab conquest (1981) [comments: no 190]
Material/s	clay
Accession Number	E.208.1932 (Antiquities) (Reference Number: 52935; Input Date: 2003-03-25 / Last Edit: 2011-07-12)

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Clay St Menas flask