Posted on 09/05/2018 4:59:54 PM PDT by Candor7
A BOTTLE containing a mystery liquid dating back to the time of Jesus Christ has been hailed as a “unique” discovery after being unearthed in Russia.
The 2,000-year-old artefact was uncovered on the site of the Phanagoria city, which was founded in the 6th century BC.
The ancient city was the largest Greek settlement on the Taman peninsula in the present-day Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.
The extraordinary object was discovered in the grave of a warrior in the Eastern Necropolis of the city.
It is filled with a mystery liquid which has not been identified...........
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
Lab flask...you’re right.
I have my doubts that that particular item is that old.
Call Abby at NCIS.......
Glass from scratch.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dIKetIWmzzs
That looks like a laboratory flask.
They did.
There was a slave from around this time who dropped one of his master's glass goblets.
So he was thrown into a pool with carnivorous (probably moray) eels.
Wow, that slave owner probably had a low turnover rate of slaves.
Snowflakes would have had a tough time back then. lol
Thank you. That’s a neat video.
Jeppson’ Mallort
that’s one way to look at it.
If its wine, don’t put it in a new wine skin.
Anything to do with goats?
BTTT “Marvel Mystery Oil, what else?’ LMAO
Greek Fire
Is it beyond the expiration date? If so it must be discarded. ;)
Thanks, that’ll make a good topic. :^)
Thanks,if you have a source for that, it will make a good topic. :^)
That area was part of the Roman Empire (Ovid was exiled to Constanta, Romania, west end of the Black Sea), but was heavily settled by Greeks and (in Ovid's time) Scythians. Depending on the ethnic background, this bottle could have held retsina, or wine with pine resin, it's a very old Greek tradition.
I may have been wrong about early glass being blown..it was molded into vessels that long, but from what I found it has been found to be blown around 2000 years ago. I was really interested in glass at one time, my brain may be getting foggy... This is what I found as at least a good start:
http://www.historyofglass.com/glass-history/glass-timeline/
https://memoryglass.com/blog/index.php/history-of-glass-blowing/
http://www.sonkajarvi.fi/In-English/Tourism/International-Bottle-Museum
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