- was not a
pithos, but was some
smaller vessel, or that
pithos is a
foreign loan, like aryballos, lekythos, and some others. The
Cretan pithos precedes...
- below. A
pithos is a very
large jar,
usually made of rough-grained
terra cotta, used for storage. Cf. Verdenius, p. 64,
comment on line 94, on
pithos. "Yet...
- Asherah. The most
famous inscriptions are
found on two pithoi,
especially Pithos A,
obverse pictured. The
central figures are human-bovine and have writing...
- of
pithos is
usually attributed to the 16th-century
humanist Erasmus who, in his
Latin account of the
story of Pandora,
changed the Gr****
pithos to pyxis...
- The
Ophel pithos is a 3,000-year-old
inscription on a
fragment of a
ceramic jar
found near Jerusalem's
Temple Mount by
Israeli archeologist Eilat Mazar...
-
common occurrences in
later works. The
other earliest depiction, a
relief pithos fragment from
Crete (c. 590–570 BC), is
thought to show a
single lion-headed...
- Delphi.
Diogenes spent his mild
winters in Athens,
taking shelter in a jar (
pithos), and his
summers outdoors in Corinth,
cooled by
breezes from the Isthmus...
- The
Mykonos vase, a
pithos, is one of the
earliest dated objects (Archaic period, c. 675 BC) to
depict the
Trojan Horse from Homer's
telling of the Fall...
- In Gr**** mythology,
Pithos (Ancient Gr****: Πίθον
means 'large wine-jar') was the "broadbreasted"
satyr who
joined the army of
Dionysus in his campaign...
-
Mistress of
animals (Potnia Theron)
Pithos with relief, 625-600 BC,
National Archaeological Museum of Athens...
