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This small pottery bottle was designed to store oil. Part of the bathing and personal hygiene routine in ancient Rome involved cleaning the body with oil. Having rubbed the oil in, a strigil was used to scrape away any excess as well as any dead skin and dirt. The illustration shows two women bathing and one woman washing her hair. This object was made in Apulia, a region of Southern Italy. maker: Unknown maker Place made: Apulia, Italy Wellcome Images |
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Short title | L0058473 Oil bottle, Southern Italy, 375-325 BCE |
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Author | Wellcome Library, London |
Headline | L0058473 Oil bottle, Southern Italy, 375-325 BCE |
Copyright holder | Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Image title | L0058473 Oil bottle, Southern Italy, 375-325 BCE
Credit: Science Museum, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org This small pottery bottle was designed to store oil. Part of the bathing and personal hygiene routine in ancient Rome involved cleaning the body with oil. Having rubbed the oil in, a strigil was used to scrape away any excess as well as any dead skin and dirt. The illustration shows two women bathing and one woman washing her hair. This object was made in Apulia, a region of Southern Italy. maker: Unknown maker Place made: Apulia, Italy made: 375-325 BCE Published: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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