@PugJesusM to Historical ArtifactsEnglish • 5 months agoRoman glass perfume bottle shaped like sandals, 2nd-3rd century ADimagemessage-square10arrow-up169arrow-down10
arrow-up169arrow-down1imageRoman glass perfume bottle shaped like sandals, 2nd-3rd century AD@PugJesusM to Historical ArtifactsEnglish • 5 months agomessage-square10
minus-square@PugJesusOPMlinkEnglish7•5 months agoIn the first century AD is when glass started to become comparatively cheap. This probably would have been out of reach of the budget of your common working man, but it was perfectly economically viable for, say, the moderately rich to order mass-produced bird-shaped perfume bottles which had to be broken to be used, just for style points
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•5 months agoThey’re so pretty! I wouldn’t have been able to bring myself to break it.
In the first century AD is when glass started to become comparatively cheap. This probably would have been out of reach of the budget of your common working man, but it was perfectly economically viable for, say, the moderately rich to order mass-produced bird-shaped perfume bottles which had to be broken to be used, just for style points
They’re so pretty! I wouldn’t have been able to bring myself to break it.