pithos

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Deutsch - Türkisch
(pl. pithoi) a large storage jar. Click here for a fun scene of Eurystheus hiding in a pithos when Herakles brings Cerebus, the hound of hell, to him (the snakes at the edge of the scene are part of Athena' aegis)
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Pithos (plural pithoi) is the ancient Greek word (πίθος, πίθοι) for a large storage jar of a characteristic shape. Originally used by western classical archaeologists to mean the jars uncovered by excavation in Crete and Greece, it has now been taken into the English language as a general word for a storage jar from any cultural horizon