Ampulla

Brown ware, yellowish wash on upper surface; fragment of the discus of a lamp bearing a figure wearing a short skirt; his/her arms are out-stretched and in the right hand and he/she holds a bird/lion/camel/slain animal, on each side of the human figure's head is an illegible Greek inscription, the whole scene is bordered with a band of dots, the figure could be St. Menas, Cybele or the Near Eastern Master of the Animals motif.

Fitzgerald: "Pilgrim flask or ampulla (fragment, one side only) of pink ware, from Cistern I, under House III, with moulded figure of St. Menas, orans, between two kneeling camples; inscription in Greek" (see publication for the Greek)