Pithos / dolium – uvodne napomene
Pithos / dolium – introducting remarks

Summary/Abstract: In the introduction author is noticing the mistake in translation of dolium,as a large barrel and not as a large ceramic pot, that is why it is common to say that Diogenes have lived in a barrel. It has been shown that large pithos were the most expensive ceramic pots in the Greek word. They were 10 times more expensive than the most expensive vases known from that period. In the article is cited for what those pots were used for and where we could find them. The biggest dolium, known so far, is the one from the shipwreck Petit Conglué, nearMarseille, which could contain 4186 liters of liquid, and which is 2 meters heightand 2 meters wide.Author is giving a review of the pithos from the Greek classical period(Olynthus, Corinth, Athena), as well as those from the Grabino di Piugia and Oppido Mamertina in southern Italy. Also he is presenting a review of dolia fromthe roman period, that Brenni presented in his synthetic study of 1986, as well as dolia from the Settefenestre site. The importance of studying those pots is specially stressed, because the results can drop a new light in researches of the economic background of antique sites. Here is also given an example of distribution of pithos/dolia findings on the islands of middle Dalmatia.

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