202 Field Museum of Natural History — Anth., Vol. VII. 



thumb-rest and ornamentation of Roman-Hellenistic style. 1 It is 

 probably derived from the wine-skin, 2 which it strikingly resembles. 3 

 The purpose which these vases served is not certain, but that the 

 bronze vases above mentioned were used as wine-pitchers is a probable 

 conjecture. 4 



Height, m. 0.113 (=4.44 in.). Length, m. 0.146 (5.74 in.). Width, m. 0.105 

 (=4.13 in.). Mouth, m. 0.043 (width) X0.0475. Length of handle (extreme), 

 m. 0.082; over top, m. 0.069. Width of handle (least), m. 0.0095. Thickness of 

 glass at break, less than % mm. (estimated). 



1 Examples among the reproductions in Field Museum, Nos. 24044, 24048, 24054, 24056, 24060. 

 Cf. Roux, op. cit. Vol. vii, plate 76. 



2 Pernice, Jahrb. xv, Anz. p. 185. 



3 Cf. the specimen with bronze statuette of Silenus, Roux, op. cit. Vol. vi, plate 65. 



* Pernice, I. c. Cf. also Mayer (I. c. p. 209), who thinks that the early askoi were attached to a cord 

 and used to draw water. 



