The Iranian Kohl-Tube from Pichvnari was excavated amongst grave goods at the 5th century BC Greek cemetery at Pichvnari in present-day western Georgia (ancient Colchis).[1] This specific kohl-tube, a polychrome glass perfume vessel wherein kohl (cosmetic for eyelids) was kept, dates to the Achaemenid era.[1] The item is identified as "Burial 136, K-P-86/149".[1] According to Amiran Kakhidze in Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia, the vessel was probably imported into western Georgia through eastern Georgia.[2] Kakhidze bases his statement on grounds that western Georgia was more interconnected with the Greek world than the Iranian world, that kohl-tubes were alien to the Greek world, and because eastern Georgia had close connections with the Iranian world in addition to being the location of more excavated kohl-tubes.[2] It was presumably made in what is contemporary northwestern Iran.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b c Kakhidze 2007, p. 109.
- ^ a b Kakhidze 2007, pp. 113–114.
- ^ Kakhidze 2007, p. 113.
Sources
edit- Kakhidze, Amiran (2007). "Iranian Glass Perfume Vessel from the Pichvnari Greek Cemetery of the Fifth Century BC". Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia. 13 (1–2): 109–115. doi:10.1163/157005707X212698.