It definitely could be, but I guess a skull just seems inherently cooler than sandals. I’m assuming good quality blown glass wasn’t cheap but I don’t know that for sure, maybe it was an inexpensive novelty.
In Poland we have a saying which directly translates to “blows wind like a sandal” which means “it stinks here” but more of a “this is a shit place to be” stinks, rather than “smell” stinks.
I wonder if this was some kind of joke or pun that makes more sense in Latin? I’m hoping it wasn’t shaped that way because it contained eau de foot…
Today we have Vodka bottles shaped like a skull, so it could just be novelty?
It definitely could be, but I guess a skull just seems inherently cooler than sandals. I’m assuming good quality blown glass wasn’t cheap but I don’t know that for sure, maybe it was an inexpensive novelty.
In the first century AD is when glass started to become comparatively cheap. This probably would have been out of reach of the budget of your common working man, but it was perfectly economically viable for, say, the moderately rich to order mass-produced bird-shaped perfume bottles which had to be broken to be used, just for style points
They’re so pretty! I wouldn’t have been able to bring myself to break it.
In Poland we have a saying which directly translates to “blows wind like a sandal” which means “it stinks here” but more of a “this is a shit place to be” stinks, rather than “smell” stinks.