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Black soup was a dish in the cuisine of ancient Sparta, made with boiled pork meat and blood, using only salt and vinegar to flavour. The soup was well known during antiquity in the Greek world, but no original recipe of the dish survives today. [ 1 ]
Black soup, a historical pork-blood soup of Ancient Greek cuisine particularly associated with ancient Sparta. Chicken and duck blood soup, a blood soup popular in Shanghai; Chornaja Poliwka, Belarusian soup made of duck, goose or pig blood and clear broth; Czernina, or Duck Blood Soup, a Polish soup made of duck, goose or pig blood and clear ...
A stirrup jar is a type of pot associated with the culture of Mycenaean Greece. They have small squat bodies, a pouring spout, and a second nonfunctioning spout over which the handles connect like a stirrup .
Pithos (/ ˈ p ɪ θ ɒ s /, [1] Ancient Greek: πίθος, plural: pithoi πίθοι) is the Greek name [2] [3] of a large storage container. The term in English is applied to such containers used among the civilizations that bordered the Mediterranean Sea in the Neolithic, the Bronze Age and the succeeding Iron Age.
Ancient Greek cuisine was characterized by its frugality for most, reflecting agricultural hardship, but a great diversity of ingredients was known, and wealthy Greeks were known to celebrate with elaborate meals and feasts. [1]: 95(129c)
The syssitia (Ancient Greek: συσσίτια syssítia, plural of συσσίτιον syssítion) [1] were, in ancient Greece, common meals for men and youths in social or religious groups, especially in Crete and Sparta, but also in Megara in the time of Theognis of Megara (sixth century BCE) and Corinth in the time of Periander (seventh century BCE).
A 4-year-old accidentally knocked over and shattered a 3,500-year-old Bronze Age jar during a visit to the Hecht Museum at the University of Haifa in Israel on Friday.. The museum said the ...
Masses of Mycenaean pottery found in excavated sites in the eastern Mediterranean show that not only were these ancient civilizations in contact with each other, but also had some form of established trade. The Koine style (from Greek koinos = "common") is the style of pottery popular in the first three quarters of this era. This form of ...