Earthenware oil flask with ovoid body and elongated neck

Made:: 1500-1100 BCE

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Earthenware oil flask with ovoid body and elongated neck, provenance unknown, from 1500BC(?) to 2nd century AD(?)

Details

Category:: Classical & Medieval Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A655422

Materials:: earthenware

Measurements:: height 110 mm
base: diameter 21 mm
body: diameter 37 mm
rim: diameter 25 mm

type:: oil bottle

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