A pithos (plural pithoi: the word is Greek) is a large clay jar used for storage. Pithoi typically store grains, seeds, wine, and oil.
Many pithoi were excavated in the Palace of Knossos and the ancient shipwreck of Uluburun. Knossos Knossos (alternative spellings Knossus, Cnossus, Gnossus, Greek Κνωσσός) is the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete, probably the ceremonial and political center of the Minoan culture. ... The Uluburun Shipwreck is a well-documented ancient shipwreck of the Late Bronze Age period, discovered off the coastline near the city of Kaş, Turkey in the early 1980s. ...
Some pithoi have handles on them. These handles were used to make carrying the pithoi easier.
There is evidence of Middle Helladic burials in Mycenae and Crete where the bones of the interred have been placed in pithoi. The early history of Greece is commonly divided into three periods: Early Helladic (c. ...-1... Crete (Greek ΚÏήτη / Kriti) is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea. ...
On one side of Pithos A or 1 there is a picture of a tree with branches of lotus blossoms.
On the other side of Pithos 1 is a picture of a cow with her calf, a male and female standing with cow-like faces, and a seated female playing a lyre.
Over their heads is a Hebrew inscription that says, "Utterance of Ashyaw the king: Say to Yehallel and to Yaw'asah and to...: I bless you by Yahweh of Samaria and his asherah" (Context Of Scripture (COS) edited by William Hallo 2.47A, 171).
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