About the Artwork
Menas Flask
5th - 6th century
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Egyptian
Coptic
Earthenware
Overall: 3 3/4 × 2 13/16 × 1 3/16 inches (9.5 × 7.1 × 3 cm)
Ceramics
African Art
Gift of Rosemarie Casemore in memory of Frieda Lammens
69.344
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
EVAO RMTOY ARIOUM HNO*
Provenance
From the Shrine of St. Menas in the Western Desert near Alexandria
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Coptic, Egyptian, Menas Flask, 5th - 6th century, earthenware. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Rosemarie Casemore in memory of Frieda Lammens, 69.344.
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