Mortar
notes: label: Description
content: White marble mortar has four carved faces wearing laurel wreaths on their heads serves as handles. The top of the rim has an egg and dart border. The body of the mortar is decorated with carvings of Pegasus and a rider, the profile of a man wearing a toga and lauel wreath on his head, a seated woman wearing a toga and holding a sphere, a second horse with a fishes tail. The top of the rim is marked "VNITA FORTIO VIRITUS"
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Pharmacy
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: European Apothecary
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content: Religion
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content: Art
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Urdang, George and Ferdinand William Nitardy. The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy: A Catalogue of the Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0664.0143
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-05696
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 408
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mortar
label: Object Name
content: mortar
label: Other Terms
content: mortar; MANUFACTURING & DISPENSING EQUIP.
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: marble (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: carved (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 cm x 25.5 cm; 5 1/8 in x 10 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/8 in x 10 1/8 in; 13.0175 cm x 25.7175 cm