Linear B tablets – Aspects of Beauty

From the Mycenaean palace at Pylos. 13th c. BC.
(ΕΑΜ/NAM Π 24035/ ΡΥ Fr 1184)

Perfume maker Kokalos delivers to his colleague Eumedes 38 large commercial stirrup jars filled with 518,4 litres of perfumed oils. Perfumed oils and unguents had cosmetic, pharmaceutical and possibly ceremonial uses.