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Jaime Saez 🥨🥐

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 4w ago

One of my favorite glass vessels: A marvellous Roman vessel in the form of a pig, made of blue glass. It was used to hold ointment or perfume. Found in a burial in Cologne. Dating late 2nd/early 3rd century AD. 📷️ Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln

Deep blue glass vessel shaped like a stylized animal with four legs, a pointed snout, and decorative ridges along its back, resembling a whimsical pig.
Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · last mo.

A Roman #glass flask in the shape of a #fish. We don't know what flasks in the shape fishes were used for, maybe the shape relates to the content (garum/fish sauce), maybe they were used to hold oil. On display at Pierides Museum, Larnaka, Cyprus. Photo: Jeff Amadon via Flickr

The picture shows a flask in the shape of a fish made of translucent light green glass. The vessel is decorated with spiral thread in the same colour.