[jagusafr]

“It is amazing that a small fragment has told us so much.”

In many other contexts (coughEvolutioncough), this would be proof that the evaluator is desperately trying to establish a link...great story, though.

[Innovative]

It’s great that an archaeology student found it and saved it.

[BenLurkin]

It is beautiful

[A strike]

Methinks this may be in the same category as from the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy: “There’s no boron in this elephant feces. “

[katana]

Perfume? I’d guess Garum, Roman fermented fish sauce made from anything left after the meat was gone, which (to quote the ads for Frank’s Hot Sauce) “they put that s*** on everything”. There’s a similar condiment popular in SE Asia that was suggested I add to a dish once. I sniffed the bottle and declined the offer. Smelled like vomit. But hey, if the French can enjoy rancid, runny cheese who are we to criticize?

[Moonman62]

It was eventually found to match a fish shaped bottle that had been restored from many pieces, which is housed in the Corning Museum of Glass, New York.

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So is this piece from the bottle in the museum or is it from a different but similar bottle?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

If only these artifacts could talk. How did it get from the glass works in today's Ukraine on the Black Sea to the Chedworth Roman Villa in Gloucestershire? Did it have one owner? Who was the owner? Were there other owners? Was it commissioned? Or were these made in large numbers and sold? Why are so few extant today? What were the trade routes that took it from the Black Sea to Gloucestershire? Why did it get smashed and discarded? Was the Lady of the Villa mad at the Man of the Villa for staying out late and she bopped him with it?