Onggi
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Onggi is earthenware extensively used as tableware and storage containers in Korea. The term includes both unglazed earthenware, fired near 600 to 700°C, and pottery with a dark brown glaze fired at o
The earliest known painted representations of onggi ware from 1781, in a scene on the panel of A Pictorial Biography of Hong Yi-san, exhibited at the National Museum of Korea.
Onggi clay pots Jeonju, Korea
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Pithos
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Pithos is the Greek name 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 A
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…Korea – Region in East Asia Pithos – Ancient Greek storage container Changwon Moonsung University (October 2004), 발효식품의 품질에 미치는 옹기의 물성평가 [Property Evaluation of Onggi on Quality of…
Pithos from Iron-Age Crete. About 1.6 m tall. br>Below: Pithoi at Knossos. Placed out of the pits for viewing, the pithoi stood in the pits for access and stability.
Pithoi in Knossos
A smaller pithos, probably not semi-subterranean, as the decorative bands cover the entire body. There is a rope decoration around the neck; however, the body features distributed fasteners for handling via a rope harness.
Uluburun ship pithos and other artifacts