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A lug is a typically flattened protuberance, a handle or extrusion located on the side of a ceramics, jug, glass, vase, or other container. They are sometimes found on prehistoric ceramics and stone containers, such as on pots from ancient Egypt , Hembury ware, claw beakers , and boar spears .
The horizontal handles were pulled from balls of clay which were then attached below the shoulder on the hydria. [7] The handles were cylindrical and upturned. The vertical handle was also pulled from a ball of clay but it was centre-ridged and oval shaped. [7] It was attached at the lip and shoulder of the hydria. [7]
Handle, 425ml New Zealand beer glass; Jug, 750–1000ml served at pubs in New Zealand; Middy, 285ml (10 fl. oz.) Australian beer glass (New South Wales) Pilsner glass, for pale lager; Pint glass, for an imperial pint of beer or cider; Pony glass, for a 140ml of beer, a "short" or "small" beer; Pot glass
Vases generally share a similar shape. The foot or the base may be bulbous, flat, carinate, [1] or another shape. The body forms the main portion of the piece. Some vases have a shoulder, where the body curves inward, a neck, which gives height, and a lip, where the vase flares back out at the top. Some vases are also given handles.
With those caveats, the names of Greek vases are fairly well settled, even if such names are a matter of convention rather than historical fact. The following vases are mostly Attic, from the 5th and 6th centuries, and follow the Beazley naming convention. Many shapes derive from metal vessels, especially in silver, which survive in far smaller ...
The cup would then be placed upside down to attach the handles. The handles would dry in this upside down position, giving the handles a unique upturned curve when the kylix was upright. [5] An oenochoe was a stout wine jug with a distinct pouring lip, and a large handle. The name comes from oinos (wine), and cheo (to pour). [6]
Silver amphora-rhyton with zoomorphic handles, c. 500 BC, Vassil Bojkov Collection (Sofia, Bulgaria) An amphora (/ ˈ æ m f ər ə /; Ancient Greek: ἀμφορεύς, romanized: amphoreús; English pl. amphorae or amphoras) is a type of container [1] with a pointed bottom and characteristic shape and size which fit tightly (and therefore safely) against each other in storage rooms and ...
An unusually large askos at the Louvre. Etruscan askos in the form of a rooster, 4th century B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Askos (Ancient Greek ἀσκός "tube"; plural: ἀσκοί - askoi) is the name given in modern terminology to a type of ancient Greek pottery vessel [1] used to pour small quantities of liquids such as oil.