Glass jar from the 1st or 2nd century AD used as a funerary urn containing cremated human remains. It was found around 1800 in Vajringa Street in Rabat (Victoria, Gozo Island, Malta), where several tombs were found. The site of the find was part of the Extramural Necropolis of Gaulos (Gozo). Gozo Museum of Archaeology. Cittadella de Victoria. Gozo, Malta.

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