
Containers and Vessels
Stone
Greece
The Government of the Hellenic Republic
Import Restricted since 2011.
Import Restricted since 2011.
Section II.A.3 of Designated List in force since 2011.
The ecclesiastical ethnological materials represent the Early Christian and Byzantine periods and include objects made from 324 A.D. through the 15th century A.D.
Containers for holy water.
Example shown:
Mortar
Material: Marble; Period: Late Byzantine Period (A.D. 1204-1453); Provenance: Thessaloniki; Place of Production: Macedonia; Dimensions: height - 20.5 cm. / diameter of rim - 22 cm. / diameter of base - 15 cm.
Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki