The Iranian Kohl-Tube from Pichvnari was excavated amongst grave goods at the 5th century BC Greek cemetery at Pichvnari in present-day western Georgia (ancient Colchis).
[1] This specific kohl-tube, a polychrome glass perfume vessel wherein kohl (cosmetic for eyelids) was kept, dates to the Achaemenid era.
[1] According to Amiran Kakhidze in Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia, the vessel was probably imported into western Georgia through eastern Georgia.
[2] Kakhidze bases his statement on grounds that western Georgia was more interconnected with the Greek world than the Iranian world, that kohl-tubes were alien to the Greek world, and because eastern Georgia had close connections with the Iranian world in addition to being the location of more excavated kohl-tubes.
[2] It was presumably made in what is contemporary northwestern Iran.