object

Dolium

Objects

A named large Roman ceramic storage jar, often partly buried. Not a pithos, not an amphora, and not a coffer.

Also known as Roman dolium

Roman religion

  • Dolium appears in Roman religion.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats the dolium among large Roman storage jars. A named Roman ceramic warehouse jar in that encyclopedia, not a Greek pithos and not an amphora of transport.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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