Amlash man bottle

This masculine terracotta figure is actually a bottle. It is 3000 years old and is identified with the "Amlash" culture, eponymous of the site of its discovery, in the north of Iran. This male-shaped bottle is the counterpart of a feminine bottle. In spite of the apparent naivety of this representation, the simple shapes, rounded to represent the different parts of the body, gives a ratio of harmonious proportions and gives us one of the first examples of the concern to adapt an ergonomics to the object: The grip is made between the arms and the hips