This small trefoil juglet is one of a small set of objects found with a particular burial within the shaft-and-chamber tombs at the St Paul’s Catacombs. It was produced sometime between the 1st and 4th centuries AD and deposited with the body of a young female. As with other objects within tombs of the Punic and Roman periods, its deposition within this burial, was done as part of the complex burial ritual but its exact role remains unknown. It is possible that this was symbolically buried, with or without a liquid, to help this young female through to life beyond the grave. However, it is also possible that this, together with the remaining assemblage, were used in the funerary meal and thus acquired a ritualistic meaning which led it to be buried within the tomb.
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