Currently not on view
Ampulla with St. Menas,
6th–7th century
Early Christian, 200 - 1000 CE
y1937-236
Information
Title
Ampulla with St. Menas
Dates
6th–7th century
Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
7.7 x 6 x 2 cm (3 1/16 x 2 3/8 x 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase
Object Number
y1937-236
Place Made
Egypt
Inscription
Reverse, within a wreath: inscription [See accession card for reproduction];
Period
Type
Materials
Museum purchase in 1937
- Dorothy Eugenia Miner, Early Christian and Byzantine art: an exhibition held at The Baltimore Museum of Art, (Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1947)., p. 155; no. 768
- Slobodan Curcic and Archer St. Clair, Byzantium at Princeton: Byzantine art and archaeology at Princeton University: catalogue of an exhibition at Firestone Library, Princeton University, August 1 through October 26, 1986, (Princeton, NJ: Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton University Library, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, 1986)., cat. no. 146; p. 119
