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Pithos

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A named large ceramic storage jar of Aegean practice. Not a dolium, not an amphora, and not a larnax.

Also known as Greek pithos

Hellenic religion

  • Pithos appears in Hellenic religion.

    Herodotus names the pithos as a large storage jar in Greek and neighboring practice. A named Hellenic vessel in that history, not a Roman dolium and not an amphora of transport.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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