Title: Pair of Drug Jars

Artist: Annibale Fontana

Query successful Gemini said ????? ???? ???(Jar-2.png)? ??? ?? ??????. Pair of Drug Jars Northern Italy (possibly Milan), about 1580 Attributed to Annibale Fontana Italian, 1540–1587 Terracotta with paint and gilding These jars were made for two specific medicinal preparations. The left jar contained Antidotum mithridaticum, a poison antidote invented in the first century B.C. by Mithridates VI Eupator, king of Pontus (120–63 B.C.). The right jar held Theriace andromachi, a cure-all that included the flesh of the venomous snakes known as vipers, invented in the first century A.D. by Andromachus, court physician to the Roman emperor Nero (ruled A.D. 54–68).