Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885 · London, J. Murray · leaf 214
GREEK POTTERY. 188 stock of wine, They were sufficiently capacious to hold a man, and were in fact the ancient hogsheads or pipes. They are perhaps best known from the circumstance of the eccentric Diogenes having converted one of them into his domicile, who is represented in some works of ancient… … No. 102.— Pithos of Diogenes. From a Lamp. used to hold honey, wine, and figs. It required great skill to make such vases ; hence the Greek proverb char- acterised an ambitious but inexperienced man as " one who began with a cask." 2 They were made by a peculiar process, which is described 3 as…
Pottery, Ancient · Pottery
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