Prob for the papyrus-girl feet-bath-water sales.
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So that weird trend of the manufacturung of the bottle probably making up most of the price of a bottle of perfume goes back to the roman empire‽
The more things change, the more they stay the same?
Though considering the price of some perfumes in Ancient Rome, the cost might be comparable.
Looks like foot fetish was a thing back then as well
I wonder if this was some kind of joke or pun that makes more sense in Latin? I’m hoping it wasn’t shaped that way because it contained eau de foot…
Today we have Vodka bottles shaped like a skull, so it could just be novelty?
It definitely could be, but I guess a skull just seems inherently cooler than sandals. I’m assuming good quality blown glass wasn’t cheap but I don’t know that for sure, maybe it was an inexpensive novelty.
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.
In Poland we have a saying which directly translates to "blows wind like a sandal" which means "it stinks here" but more of a "this is a shit place to be" stinks, rather than "smell" stinks.