Some considerations regarding relief pithoi in Greece between the end of the 8th and the 7th Centuries BC
Luca Salvaggio Pithoi, large vessels for storing supplies, were a valuable tool of the household economy. Despite the high practicality of this containers, they are also known in a richly relief-decorated version produced in Greece from the 8th century BC. This paper offers some reflections on this phenomenon based on literary sources and proposes a…