Askos
This is a small askos, used to store oil to fill oil lamps. This one was found at a cemetery so will have been used at a burial. The shape and colour of this vessel is intended to imitate more expensive metal vessels.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 36/1927/37
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Southern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Forbes, J de B, Rev
- Material
- potteryblack glazed ware
- Common Name
- askos
- Simple Name
- lamp
