Zhuravlev D.V.

Key words: ampulles, St. Minas, Christianity, pilgrimage, Early Byzantine Chersonesos, Bosporus.
The article is devoted to two with image of St. Menas from the State Historical Museum, which were found in Chersonesos and in Bosporus in the late 19th c. Pilgrims used such ampulles for holy water or oil from the monastery of Abu Menas in Egypt in the 6th – first half of the 7th cc. AD.