Pouring vessels have been used for thousands of years for a variety of religious and secular purposes. Drinks were offered to present to and honor divinities, ancestors and souls of the departed. In Greece, a libation is a ritual and sacred act of pouring wine from a jug preceding the drinking of wine and also considered an act of Greek piety. In Rome, libations were often a liquid offering of unmixed wine and perfume and an offering act of worship. The Burmese have a Buddhist ritual pouring of water from a vase at the end of a Buddhist ceremony that acts to share the accrued merits gained in this act with all other living beings. Hindu deities are offered water in daily puja and home and temple offering rituals to honor them, and the Chinese pour tea or wine from side to side in front of tombstones and altars as an offering to gods and to honor the departed. In a non-religious or sacred context, pouring vessels are used on a daily basis for fluids of all kinds but especially wine and water, but they can also be used to pour spices, oils, cosmetics, fragrances, ointments, etc.
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Oenochoe, the Greek word for wine vessel or jug, is a category of ancient Greek pottery with different variants. Copied and modified by ancient cultures, this earthenware pouring vessel was made in a pottery center in the Roman North Africa territory called Africa Proconsulares and exported throughout the empire. Made using a potter’s wheel and…
This elegant ancient-pottery Judean vessel is an elegant single-handle amphoriskos (literally a “small amphora,”). It dates from the Holy Land during the first Jewish Biblical-Period in Judea circa the 8th to 6th century BCE, the later time of the presence of the first Jewish Temple in the ancient Levant. An ancient Greek inspired vessel, amphora…
This black burnished earthenware terracotta juglet dates from the time the Jewish people returned from their exile in Babylonia to in the region called the Holy Land and the Levant during the Biblical Period. At this time in the Iron Age, coil construction was used to make utilitarian pottery often finished using the paddle-and-anvil method…
This ancient pottery juglet was created in the Holy Land during the Biblical Period likely under Herod the Great, King of Judea or later in the Herodian Period (37BCE- 73CE). A Roman-Empire earthenware juglet, it that held perfume, costly oils, ointments or cosmetics. Like other functional pouring vessels, its ancient globular body is decorated with…
This black burnished earthenware juglet was made about the time the Jewish people returned from exile in Babylonia to Judea in the Holy Land (the Levant) during the Biblical Period (circa 600-300BCE). Then during the Iron Age, coil construction was used to make functional pieces and were finished using the paddle-and-anvil method to compact and…
Daunian style earthenware pottery was produced in the ancient northern Italian region Apulia, in what was then known as Magna Graecia. This cup from the 6th or 5th centuries B.C.E. was covered with beige slip and then painted with red, brown and black earth colors in a variety of patterns including diamonds, triangles, crosses, rectangles,…
This is an excellent example of an ancient earthenware wheel made carinated flagon. Carinated is describes pieces whose lower and upper bodies slope in opposite directions and meet to form a visible edge around the entire vessel. This one has a very low profile curving up to a tall neck, a strap handle and a…
This is an excellent example of an ancient earthenware carinated pottery flagon made in production centers in throughout the Roman Empire. This was made in, the Roman-North-Africa territory called Africa-Proconsularis. These pouring vessels locally made by provincial artisans were used specifically to hold and pour water, wine and other liquids and placed in kitchens, on…
This small earthenware jarlet was made using a potter’s wheel, fired in a kiln and is one of many pouring vessels used throughout the Roman Empire. It was made in a ceramics center in Africa-Proconsularis, the name for Roman North Africa territories. Made from clay, it is covered with a beige or white slip. These…
This ancient-pottery juglet was created in the Holy Land and Levant during the Biblical Period likely under Herod the Great, king of ancient Judea or later in the Herodian Period (37BCE- 73CE). It is a terracotta earthenware juglet pouring vessel and utilitarian piece that held perfume or other costly oils, ointments or cosmetics. The globular…
This Biblical Period ancient earthenware wine jug was made in the late Iron Age in the Holy Land of Judea (the Levant) about the time of the first Jewish Temple. A very high carinated piece, it was built using the coil construction method and the paddle and anvil technique. Like most pouring vessels, it was…
This ancient pottery lekanis is from Apulia in Magna Graecia, the Roman name for the South Italy coastal area colonized by the Greeks in the 6th century B.C.E. Greek settlers arrived with their Hellenic culture intact and had much influence on Italian civilization. A lekanis was a highly decorated low shallow bowl with close-fitting top…
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