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- boxes, or other symbols. Pithos (/ˈpɪθɒs/, Ancient Gr****: πίθος, plural: pithoi πίθοι) is the Gr**** name of a large storage container. The term in English...
- Pithoi was a town of ancient Lycaonia, inhabited in Byzantine times. The name does not occur among ancient authors but is inferred from epigraphic and...
- and granular necessities were stored in pithoi located in magazines, or storage rooms, and elsewhere. Pithoi make their earliest appearance just before...
- death as ****phone both dies as she (the grain) is buried in the pithoi (as similar pithoi were used in ancient times for funerary practices) and is reborn...
- Pedachtoë Pedaia Peium Perta Pessinus Pharax Phlara Pillitokome ****ia Pithoi Pontanena Posala Pteria Purushanda Pyrgoi Sadagolthina Salamboreia Salarama...
- dating from about 700 BC. Other early depictions are found on two relief pithoi from the Gr**** islands Mykonos and Tinos, both generally dated between 675...
- corn that was stored in underground silos or ceramic jars (pithoi). Similar subterranean pithoi were used in ancient times for funerary practices. At the...
- Nikolaos Zapheiropoulos have uncovered several tombs with funeral gifts, pithoi, and funerary kouroi and korai, some of which are exhibited at Fira archaeological...
- found further away. These include huts, stone paving, threshing floors, pithoi, and waste left behind by Bronze Age industry such as murex s**** ****ociated...
- word translated as "box" was actually a large jar (πίθος pithos) in Gr****. Pithoi were used for storage of wine, oil, grain or other provisions, or, ritually...