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Oil flask

Flask bottle or bilbil with flared circular foot, globular body widening to shoulder, narrow tall neck, outward flared, flat-topped rim. Handle broken away, but comprised one strap handle from neck to shoulder. Cypriote-type, probably made in Egypt.

Flask bottle or bilbil with flared circular foot, globular body widening to shoulder, narrow tall neck, outward flared, flat-topped rim. Handle broken away, but comprised one strap handle from neck to shoulder. Cypriote-type, probably made in Egypt.

Object Oil flask
Provenance Abydos, Egypt
Site Cemetery D, North Section
Period Dynasty XVIII
Material Pottery
Subject Egyptology
Ref. No 1901.36:101
Copyrights Bolton Council