balsamarium

From balsam +‎ -arium.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌbɔːl.səˈmɛəɹi.əm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌbɔl.səˈmɛɹi.əm/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˌbɑl.səˈmɛɹi.əm/
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm

balsamarium (plural balsamariums or balsamaria)

1. An ancient vessel for holding balsam.
   • 2007 June 26, Randy Kennedy, “Collecting Antiquities, Cautiously, at the Getty”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Ms. Wight said that as recently as May the museum bought an important late Hellenistic or early Roman bronze balsamarium, or oil vessel, in the shape of a boxer’s head from a private collection in the United States that has documentation stretching back to the 1870s.