Un vaso plastico da Torre Santa Sabina (Brindisi) e la possibilità di commercializzazione di acqua lustrale, acqua santa, acqua floreale (idrolati) ed altri liquidi non oleosi

The "rediscover" of Plastic vase (Magenta ware) from the wreck TSS4 of Torre Santa Sabina, stoared at the Museum F. Ribezzo in Brindisi, broadens the frame work of knowledge about the original function and the circulation of such objects within the Salento Peninsula in the Late Hellenistic Age. Hypothesis of this work is that they were used as containers for particular liquids distributed not in large amounts but, due to their own dimensions, in small quantities. Therfore beside the most supported theories, such as the containing of fine wine, potions and ointments, it is suggested that these vessels carried aqueous solutions and holy waters used for public and private ceremonies in the practice of rites and cults Egyptianizing or originating in the Eastern-Aegean Mediterranean and generically defined Alexandrian.