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© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Girona
Omeka ID 3148
Empúries
Colonisations

alabaster container

MAC GIR-000841

Object type
alabastron
Production date
-700 / -301
Fabric
-
Museum
Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Girona
Culture
Colonisations
Discovery location
Empúries
Materials
alabaster
Township
Escala, l' (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Girona, Alt Empordà)
Technique
carving
Where is it?
MASPG
Dimensions
160 x 150 x 53 (Ø); 33,5 x 67 (Ø) mm
Description
Alabaster from the site of Empúries (L'Escala, Alt Empordà). It has a flat and wide mouth, ellipsoidal section and concave base and two small nipple handles. It has no decoration. This type of containers used to contain cosmetics such as scented oils and ointments. Of wide chronology, they are found between the 7th and 4th centuries BC. While alabaster products came mainly from the Eastern Mediterranean (probably from Egypt), in Athens they were made in ceramics decorated with black figures. They naturally kept the name of alabaster in memory of their distant eastern relatives.

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