SY D ABSINTI
date: label: date made
content: ca 1600
label: Date made
content: 1600 - 1625
notes: label: Description
content: This syrup jar has an applied strap handle and a spout supported by an entwined strap. The round metal lid is not original to the container. The jar is decorated with cobalt blue scroll–like vines and stylized flora. Just below the spout is a blue, yellow, and white shield with a yellow lion standing on one hind leg. The escroll is inscribed in cobalt blue, <i>SY D ABSINTIO</i> which would have contained Absinthum, Absinthium or Syrup of Wormwood. Leaves and the tops of flowers of the wormwood plant were used to make this tonic, which was taken for a variety of stomach ailments and as a cure for intestinal worms.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Italy: Emilia-Romagna, Faenza
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: Drey, Rudolf E.A.. Apothecary Jars
label: Related Publication
content: Urdang, George and Ferdinand William Nitardy. The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy: A Catalogue of the Collection
label: Related Publication
content: Estes, J. Worth. Dictionary of Protopharmacology: Therapeutic Practices, 1700-1850
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: 1991.0664.0502
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-05714
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0502.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0502.02
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 426
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar
label: Object Name
content: syrup jar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 cm x 18.5 cm x 22.5 cm; 8 21/32 in x 7 9/32 in x 8 27/32 in