Robert B. Coote published a note on Tell Siran Bottle in BASOR (1980), suggesting that we consider contents of bottle. His opinion was that the bottle probably contained scented oil, presumably what was known in Hebrew as semen sad6n (Isa 61:3; Ps 45:8), 'oil of joy9' (1980: 93). It is of course not impossible that bronze bottle was originally filled with scented oil or perfume of some kind. When it was found, it had a cap whose shape resembles a modern cork with a cylindrical portion that fits inside top of neck of bottle. In contrast to a solid cork, metal cylinder portion of Siran cap was hollow. The top covers top of bottle and is spread out like a mushroom so that its diameter is approximately that of top of neck of bottle. The outside perimeter of mushroom-shaped top had been hammered, perhaps to make it fit snugly or perhaps to line up rivet holes. A rivet went through neck of bottle and through cylinder portion of cap, which fit down inside neck of bottle. The rivet was flattened on both ends. The bottle was opened by filing off one of flattened ends of rivet and then punching rivet out through other side of neck. Dr. Wayatek J. Popiel of Department of Chemistry, University of Jordan, and a member of UNESCO Science Teaching Team, made a series of spectrographic analyses of metals. The bottle and cap are made of copper, lead, and tin. The filings from end of rivet gave a similar reading but with less tin. There were traces of iron, magnesium, calcium, and silicon. Popiel suggested that last two probably represent contamination from soil, while former two are probably from impurities in ore. Mixed throughout contents of bottle were small grains and small chunks of greenish metal. These were analyzed as copper and lead, with traces of iron, silicon, and possibly tin. It is not impossible that these fragments are corrosion from inside bottle; but lead certainly argues against that, as does questionable presence of tin, for tin was clearly present in bottle, cap, and rivet. The speculation, then, is that there was a metal object inside bottle or that fragments of metal were mixed with contents at time bottle was sealed. We cannot tell, of course, what metal represents. A metal scroll would fit conditions in which metal bits were found-scattered throughout contents of bottle.