a jar that is womb-like in shape and is a symbol for the earth, the mother of all
Minoan jars or vases, sometimes taller than a person, that were used for storage.
(pl. pithoi) large Greek storage jar
Pithos (plural pithoi) is the ancient Greek word (πίθος, πίθοι) for a large storage jar of a characteristic shape. Originally used by western classical archaeologists to mean the jars uncovered by excavation in Crete and Greece, it has now been taken into the English language as a general word for a storage jar from any cutural horizonThe word is to be found in Webster's Third International Dictionary.