Because it's a Sunday and everything is still a wee bit "bleh" shall we treat ourselves?
Lets' bathe our eyes in some unalloyed beauty. And bathe we shall. Grab your softest towel and a strigil, as we look at some aryballos.
(credits will appear in Alt-tag below image)

Aryballos are small vessels, used to contain plain or scented oils or ointments, latterly associated with bathing, their earlier history is slightly 'earthier'
Credit: All 1st - 2nd C, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

The Romans borrowed the idea of the aryballos from the Greeks (Greek: ἀρύβαλλος; plural aryballoi) who for centuries eelier had narrow-necked ceramic flasks containing oil. These are times depicted as being used by Athletes, bathing after their exertions.
Cr: Greek, 570 B.C Met

On this Attic Red-figured Jar, attributed to (the brilliantly named ) "The Carpenter painter" Circa 490 B.C
You see an athlete preparing to throw the javelin. Can you spot his aryballos hung up in safe spot behind him?

And while the Greet examples are undeniably beautiful, and sometimes sees craftspeople pushing the materials to their absolute limits (see the Cockleshell example below (again Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Maybe it's just me there's' something of the locker room 'jock banter' about some them. ( I love the hand actually clutching 'another' flask...very meta)

And when I said locker room...
(There's ALWAYS that guy who insists on standing with one leg up on the bench right next you while he towels down...ffs go 'jiggle over there fella)
Cr: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Romans combined their love of Aryballoi and that most beloved material they would take to heights of technical finesse, GLASS! (and it looked cool with the oil sloshing around inside)

1st Century example
CR: private collection