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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. Stamnoi had a foot, wide mouths, 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.

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