Vessel with a strap handle and Lid and Lentoid Bottle (Pilgrim Flask) ca. 1353–1336 New Kingdom, Amarna Period These are marl-clay pots excavated in the North Suburb at Amarna. The lentoid flask () is a type that originates outside Amarna itself. It probably came with particular trade contents: many such lentoid flasks from Amarna show a pitting on the interior that suggests their special contents was somewhat corrosive. The two-handled jar () is lidded with a small upside down silt-clay dish. It had a brown contents when excavated. The jar was found in a house with many other
Vessel with a strap handle and Lid and Lentoid Bottle (Pilgrim Flask) ca. 1353–1336 New Kingdom, Amarna Period These are marl-clay pots excavated in the North Suburb at Amarna. The lentoid flask () is a type that originates outside Amarna itself. It probably came with particular trade contents: many such lentoid flasks from Amarna show a pitting on the interior that suggests their special contents was somewhat corrosive. The two-handled jar () is lidded with a small upside down silt-clay dish. It had a brown contents when excavated. The jar was found in a house with many others, some sunk into the floor for storage, and plentiful remains of pigments in the house suggested to the excavators that it belonged to a Vessel with a strap handle and Lid and Lentoid Bottle (Pilgrim Flask) 689624
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