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Oil container 

Container for oil or perfume

Container for oil or perfume

Bronze

A bathouse e.g. Stabian Baths, Pompeii

This jar may have contained the oil used with a strigil to scrape the body clean before plunging into a bath. Such jars were often pictured in mosaics on the floors of bath houses.

SAP No: 11356

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Map showing where the oil container was found

A bathouse e.g. Stabian Baths, Pompeii

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