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Ampulla (disambiguation)

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An ampulla (plural "ampullae") was, in Ancient Rome, a "small nearly globular flask or bottle, with two handles" (OED). The word is used of these in archaeology, and of later flasks, often handle-less and much flatter, for holy water or holy oil in the Middle Ages.

  • Monza ampullae - 6th century, metal souvenirs of pilgrimages to the Holy Land.
  • Holy Ampulla - glass, part of the French coronation regalia and believed to have divine origins.
  • The Ampulla in the British Crown Jewels, a hollow, gold, eagle-shaped vessel from which the anointing oil is poured at the Coronation of the British Monarch.

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