Fragment of Flask (ampulla) showing Thecla and Menas

4th–6th century A.D.

Not on view

Medium: Light buff ware, formed in a two-part mold
Dimensions: 3 3/8 × 4 1/2 in. (8.5 × 11.5 cm)
Credit Line: The Whiting Palestinian Collection
Accession Number: 1912.311
Culture: Near Eastern, Palestinian
Period: Late Roman–early Byzantine
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Palestine, location unknown

Bibliography

Natalie Boymel Kampen, Elizabeth Marlowe, and Rebecca M Molholt, What is a Man? Changing Images of Masculinity in Late Antique Art, exh. cat. (Portland, Ore.: Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, 2002), 67–9, no. 35, pl. 35, ill

Susan B. Matheson and Diana E.E. Kleiner, eds., I, Claudia: Women in Ancient Rome, exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1996), 102, no. 70, ill

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

ampullae, flasks (bottles), fragments

Obverse: in Greek: [AG]IOS MENAS

n.s.

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