Side A from an Attic red-figure stamnos, ca. 480 BC; Louvre

A stamnos (plural stamnoi; adjective stamnoid) is a type of Greek pottery used to store liquids.[1] Stamnoi had a foot, wide mouths,[2] lids and handles on their shoulders. The earliest known examples come from archaic Laconia and Etruria, and they began to be manufactured in Athens around 530 BC.[1]

References

Works cited

  • von Bothmer, Dietrich (1967). "Review: The Attic Stamnos by Barbara Philippaki". Gnomon. 39 (8). JSTOR 27684322.
  • Scheibler, Ingeborg (2006). "Stamnos". Brill's New Pauly. doi:10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e1120940.

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