Pitt Rivers Museum Anthropology and World Archaology

 

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Glass bottle

Egypt

 

Thought to have been collected by D. Stafford

Given to the Museum in 1968

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Glass bottle, Egypt

This is a hand-blown Egyptian glass bottle, from the Roman period. Early scholars called such bottles ‘tear bottles’ because they thought they were used to hold the tears of the bereaved. However, chemical tests have disproved this theory, revealing traces of oil and perfume.

View database record 1968.22.2