A wide-mouthed amphora with a broad base, used in ancient Greece for holding wine or water.
(古希腊用来盛酒或水的)大底盘广口罐
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First wine, brought in amphorai or pelikai, and water, brought in hydriai, were mixed in krateres or (smaller) stamnoi, usually placed in the centre of the room.
For an obol, or roughly the price of a red-figure pelike by the hand of Beazley's ‘Achilles Painter’, the craftsman could buy nearly four litres of grain.
The pelike was used to store scented oils or perfumes in bulk.