Iranian Kohl-Tube from Pichvnari
An Iranian Kohl-Tube from Pichvnari is a colorful glass perfume tube found with grave goods in a 5th-century BC Greek cemetery at Pichvnari, in what is now western Georgia (ancient Colchis). The tube held kohl, a cosmetic for the eyes, and dates to the Achaemenid era. It is catalogued as Burial 136, K-P-86/149. Scholar Amiran Kakhidze suggests the tube came to western Georgia from eastern Georgia, noting that western Georgia was more connected to the Greek world, that kohl-tubes were uncommon in Greece, and that eastern Georgia had closer ties to Iran and more examples of kohl-tubes. The vessel was probably made in what is today northwestern Iran.
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