UNG. EGYPTIAC
notes: label: Description
content: This albarello–shaped drug jar has an off–white underglaze with a muted blue, yellow, and green palette. A yellow–haired putti with blue and yellow wings is sitting on a tuft of green grass. Thin bands of blue encircle the jar just above the upper shoulder and below the bottom shoulder. Text in between the lower bands reads <i>VNG EGYPTIAC.</i>
label: Description
content: Based on its muted palette, pharmacy historian George Urdang believed this piece to be of 18th-century origin from the Castelli region. The bottom of the jar is marked in glaze with the initials, <i>G.B.C.</i> He believed the artist to be Rocco di Castelli. The jar would have contained Unguentum Egyptiacum, Latin for Egyptian ointment. Egyptian ointment was a combination of copper acetate and honey that was used as an escharotic, a caustic agent.
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: Health & Medicine
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content: European Apothecary
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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: 1991.0664.0568
label: catalog number
content: M-05780
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 492
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0568
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar
label: Object Name
content: albarello
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18.4 cm x 11 cm; 7 1/4 in x 4 11/32 in