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Lisbon oil merchant, c. 1900.
Olive oil production in Croatia
Olive oil is a vegetable oil obtained by pressing whole olives and extracting the oil.
Extra virgin olive oil presented with green and black preserved table olives
Ancient Greek olive oil production workshop in Klazomenai, Ionia (modern Turkey)
Ancient oil press (Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology, Bodrum, Turkey)
Olive crusher (trapetum) in Pompeii (79 AD)