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Carchesia seem to have had several different forms but were generally somewhat elongated and narrower in the middle than at the top or bottom. They were used for
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used on Greek and Roman ships and to the crane mechanism that could be operated from it. It was glossed in
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Karkhesion

Gallo-Roman Museum
Tongeren
Belgium

Picardy Museum
Amiens
France
Latin
Greek
καρχήσιον
drinkware
ancient Greeks
Romans
wine in ancient Greece
Rome
milk
libation
Vergil
Aeneas
sacred blood
Anchises
honey
late Antiquity
Sidonius
Chaldeans
Babylonia
crow's nest
Old English

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