🏺🫒2000 years old bottle contains solidified olive oil

 🏺🫒2000 years old bottle contains solidified olive oil ,It was found in the ruins of the ancient Roman city Herculaneum (archeological museum of Naples 🏛️

✅  Tourists and visitors to the National Archeological Museum in Naples (MANN) had the opportunity to see a 2000 years old bottle contains solidified olive oil, it is considered the oldest product in the world. It was found in the ruins of the ancient Roman city Herculaneum. 

✅ During the Roman Imperial Age Olive Oil was the main dietary vegetable oil; it was also used for lighting, therapy, pregnancy, and delivery as well as cosmetics such as a characteristic rose-scented olive oil.

✅Visitors can also see a ( carbonized ) Panis Quadratus (Roman Bread) which was discovered in a villa owned by a member of a very successful merchant family  in  Herculaneum called Quintus Granius Verus. He was one of the city's elders. 

✅The loaf was stamped with a text " Of Celer, slave of Quintus Granius Verus". Loaves of bread were marked in this manner before being  taken into a communal bakery . 

✅The bread's original owner, Celer is known to have survived the eruption of Vesuvius, and the subsequent pyroclastic flow. His name appears in a later list of freed slaves.

✅The dough of the bread was chemically analyzed and was known to be sourdough bread. It was incised before being baked. The  cuts devided the bread into wedges to make it easier to share. A string was tied around the side of  the bread to make it easier to carry. 

Both, olive oil bottles and bread are depicted in Roman Art.

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