Bottles for perfumed oil from the 5th century BCE, Classical Era Empúries, Catalonia, Spain.
BOTTLES FOR PERFUMED OIL
Made of different materials and from various origins, they are the most frequent type of funerary offering in the Greek necropolises
of Emporion.
12. Alabaster ointment jars
Empúries (5th century BC)
13. Alabastron of Attic pottery
Attributed to the so-called "Painter of Emporion"
Empúries (5th century BC)
14. Lecitos of Attic pottery
With the representation of a palmette and a head covered with a petasos.
Empúries (4th century BC)
15. Amphora of Attic pottery
Empúries (5th-4th centuries BC)
16. South Italic ceramic ointment jar
Empúries (4th century BC)
17. Glass paste amphora
Empúries (5th century BC)
18. Glass paste ointment jars (alabaster)
Empúries (5th century BC)
Exhibited at the Catalan Museum of Archaeology, Barcelona, Spain. Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya (MAC).
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