Medicinal Vessels from Tell Atrib (Egypt)

• Authors: Łajtar Adam , Południkiewicz Anna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article offers publication of seventeen miniature vessels discovered in Hellenistic strata of Athribis (modern Tell Atrib) during excavations carried out by Polish-Egyptian Mission in the 1980s/1990s. The vessels, made of clay, faience and bronze, are mostly imports from various areas within the Mediterranean, including Sicily and Lycia, and more rarely – local imitations of imported forms. Two vessels carry stamps with Greek inscriptions, indicating that they were containers for lykion, a medicine extracted from the plant of the same name, highly esteemed in antiquity. The vessels may be connected with a healing activity practised within the Hellenistic bath complex.

Keywords

EN

Tell Atrib; Hellenistic Egypt; pottery; medicinal vessels; lykion; healing activity

• Publisher: Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN
• Journal: Études et Travaux (Institut des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences)
• Year: 2017
• Volume: XXX
• Pages: 315–337

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Łajtar Adam

• Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, Warszawa,

author

Południkiewicz Anna

• Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, Warszawa,

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12775/EtudTrav.30.016