Gundeshapur Dasher Bottle

A tall, elegantly carved dasher with a stout base. 7 inches (17.8 cm) high with a 150 ml capacity. This dasher's namesake is Gundeshapur, an ancient city founded in 3rd-century CE Persia. 

Found in Gundeshapur was a library, a university, and the very first teaching hospital. The practitioners within these scholastic entities are believed to have developed the use of botanical tinctures; expanding on the ancient medicine and influencing health care implementations from Greece to India. 

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