TRAC AROMAT
date: label: date made
content: 18th century
notes: label: Description
content: This blown and molded square-shaped bottle has a narrow neck with a round stopper. The baked white enamel shield is framed by stylized blue leaves and capped by a yellow crown. The label is marked in black <i>TRAC AROMAT.</i> <i>Aromata</i> is Latin for spices, and this apothecary jar would have held some sort of solution mixed with spices. Aromatic spices such as myrrh, cloves and various flowers were used to make the air clean and healthful. Reference: Paul Freedman, <i>Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination</i> (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), p. 81.
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: 1991.0664.0355
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 216
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0355.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0355.02
label: catalog number
content: M-05504
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bottle
label: Other Terms
content: bottle; Pharmaceutical Container
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13.3 cm x 5 cm x 5.1 cm; 5 1/4 in x 1 31/32 in x 2 in