Field photograph·Csn3136

Wine jars

Woman leaning over a large earthenware wine jar in a stone-walled courtyard, with a second jar beside her — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn3136. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A woman in a light blouse and dark headscarf leans over the open mouth of a large earthenware jar with raised rim bands, standing on a flagstone floor. A second, similar jar stands to the left beside a small jug with a handle. Behind them are a pointed arch, a rubble stone wall with a shelf holding bottles, and a wooden door.

English, as on the record

WINE JARS "…. Wine…. Had a taste of pitch; and that is bacause they have no barrels, but great jars made of earth, wherein their wine is put. And these jars are all inclosed within the ground save only their mouthes, which stand always open like to a source or cistern, whose insides are all interlarded with pitch to preserve the earthern vessels unbroke asundere, in regard of the forcible wine." William Lithgow, 1640. (The total Discourse of the Rare adventures.)

English, as on the record