Definitions
A large ceramic jar used by certain ancient civilizations that bordered the Mediterranean.
Word origin
Borrowed from Ancient Greek πίθος (píthos).
Used in a sentence
“Xenophon, Plato's contemporary, remarks that he finds pitiable those persons who, according to tradition, pour water into a perforated pithos, since they labor in vain.”
“Only two Hellenistic pithoi in use in the Hellenistic period have been found intact and in situ at the Agora, as far as I am aware.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Large ancient jar”6 letters
02“Ancient storage jar”6 letters
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