Speyer wine bottle

It contained the world's oldest known liquid wine (dated to about AD 325), until 2024, when a 1st century AD urn within a Roman tomb - found in 2019 in the southern Spanish town of Carmona - was confirmed to still contain liquid wine.

[1] It is a 1.5 L (51 U.S. fl oz) glass vessel with amphora-like "shoulders," yellow-green in color, with dolphin-shaped handles.

[3] One source says the man was a Roman legionary and the wine was a provision for his celestial journey.

While it has reportedly lost its ethanol content, analysis is consistent with at least part of the liquid having been wine.

[4][5] Petronius (c. 27–66 AD), in his work Satyricon, writes of plaster sealed bottles, and this one is analogous.