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...
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Pandora (section Pithos into "box")
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...
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Kuntillet Ajrud inscriptions (section Pithos A)
Asherah. The most famous inscriptions are found on two pithoi, especially Pithos A, obverse pictured. The central figures are human-bovine and have writing...
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of pithos is usually attributed to the 16th-century humanist Erasmus who, in his Latin account of the story of Pandora, changed the Greek pithos to pyxis...
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In Greek mythology, Pithos (Ancient Greek: Πίθον means 'large wine-jar') was the "broadbreasted" satyr who joined the army of Dionysus in his campaign...
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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...
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Pithus (redirect from Pithos (deme))
Pithus or Pithos (Ancient Greek: Πίθος) was a deme in ancient Attica of the phyle of Cecropis, sending three, four, or five delegates to the Athenian Boule...
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Pitho Rahal is a village in Sultanpur Lodhi tehsil in Kapurthala district of Punjab, India. It is located 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the city of Sultanpur...
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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...
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under 50 L Pithos – very large, typically the size of a person and holding hundreds of liters, Pandora's Box is often referred to as Pithos canopic jar...
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