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Etruscan situla, 600–550 BC, tomb 68 at the Certosa necropolis. Situla (plural situlae), from the Latin word for bucket or pail, is the term in archaeology and art history for a variety of elaborate bucket-shaped vessels from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages, usually with a handle at the top.
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 Lycurgus Cup, lit from behind, with a modern foot and rim.. The function of cage cups is debated. The inscriptions strongly suggest that they were cups to be used, and perhaps passed around, for ceremonial drinking at feasts, but it has been suggested that the shape of the out-turned rim of the beakers and the missing stand of all known vessels means that all diatreta were like the example ...
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.
Patera from Georgia, likely depicting Fortuna (2nd century AD, [1] Georgian National Museum). In the material culture of classical antiquity, a patera (Latin pronunciation:) or phiale (Ancient Greek: φιάλη [pʰi.á.lɛː]) [2] is a shallow ceramic or metal libation bowl.
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A conical storage vase with two handles used to store and transport both liquids and dry contents. They were usually ceramic but examples of metal and other materials have been found. Typically amphora held less than 50 kilograms (110 lb) so it could be lifted by a single individual and were produced with a pointed base to allow upright storage ...
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