Copper Bucket Offering

  • Unknown
  • Hellence
  • 7th century A.D
  • Copper
  • Rezan Has Museum Collection

ὑγιένουσα χροῦ, κύρα, ἐν πόλλοις σε χρόνοις.

 “Use this in good health, dear lady, for many years to come.”

Such copper buckets were frequently used at baths or homes during the Byzantine Era. Similar to this inscription, wishes for good health were widely encountered on feminine objects of hygiene and jewelry of Late Antiquity.