THERIACA ANDROMA CHI
date: label: Date made
content: 1700 - 1799
label: date made
content: 18th century
notes: label: Description
content: This is a blue, yellow and green tin glazed waisted drug jar. The jar is decorated with a painted female mythological figure with a swan in one hand and flowers in the other, set against a landscape. On either side of the figure are vertical bands of foliage. An escrol above the figure is marked “THERIACA ANDROMACHI.” Theriac, an opium compound, was thought to be a panacea for a variety of diseases and an antidote for poison. Andromachus served as the Roman Emperor Nero’s physician, and this opium compound would have contained his formulation of the medicine.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Italy
topic: label: Subject
content: Mythology
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: 1991.0664.0646
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-05858
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 570
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0646
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar
label: Object Name
content: jar, albarello
label: Other Terms
content: jar; Pharmaceutical Container
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 27.7 cm x 16 cm; 10 29/32 in x 6 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/4 in x 6 1/8 in; 28.575 cm x 15.5575 cm