Bouteille

 

From 1866 to 1875, major excavations were made on Ile de la Cité during the construction of the new Hôtel Dieu hospital. Discovered on May 20, 1867, at the intersections of Rue Saint-Landry and Rue des Marmousets, this bottle is intact in spite of the fragility of the material. In a so-called “prismatic” shape and with a rectangular cross section, it was blown inside a mold.

Several large glassblowing workshops were established between the first and third centuries at the border between Belgian Gaul and the Lyon region. They produced bottles for export or for local customers. These bottles were used for packing, transporting and storing liquid foods but were often found in a funerary context as an object to accompany the deceased.

Most of them bear initials or patterns that are references to the container or its contents or the name of the producer or product. This one has the letters TN DN on the bottom.