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27 August 2014: Turners Hill, West Sussex. Supplier of Cretan pots - in 2014, the new cafe had not yet opened.
27 August 2014: Turners Hill, West Sussex. Supplier of Cretan pots - in 2014, the new cafe had not yet opened.
27 August 2014: Turners Hill, West Sussex. Supplier of Cretan pots - in 2014, the new cafe had not yet opened.
Three large jugs - Pithoi with motifs labeling their contents; Mature Late Cycladic I period.
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These storage containers must be important, we ran across many of them at various locations at Knossos.
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Knossos - The Magazine of the Giant Pithoi. These huge earthenware vessels were used for transporting goods. Their multiple handles were used with ropes to move the heavy vessels. Crete, Greece.
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This house is built on two levels against the city walls on the seashore, suggesting the walls were no longer in use and in ruins. On the upper level is a courtyard with a peristyle paved with a pebble mosaic which is the only example of its type in Sicily. It resembles a panelled carpet with a complex geometric border and with the panels containing depictions of hunting wild animals (a lion attacking a bull, a bird of prey, a deer). Its format dates it from similar ones in mainland Greece and its colonies to the 3rd century BC. The peristyle has residential rooms around it.
On the lower level in the southwestern part of the house are 6 service rooms with three large pithoi (food storage vessels).