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The Byzantine Museum's Ceramics Collection contains ca 3,100 objects dating from the Early Christian era to the Post-Byzantine period. Although the bulk of the material is made up of sherds, often of unknown provenance, there are some intact items, of everyday use for the most part.  Small oenochoe (wine ladles), lekythoi (small flasks for scented oils), little jars, perfume bottles and lamps are the most common ceramic vessels of the Early Christian era which come for the most part from excavations of Early Christian tombs in the Athens area and elsewhere.  The collection includes also representative samples of glazed tableware from the mid-and late Byzantine period, mainly plates or cups.    
The Collection contains also Post-Byzantine vessels from main Greece and Balkans, but also imported ceramics from Italy (maiolica) or pottery made in Ottoman workshops (Iznik).