I’m trying to imagine the situation where pottery with pointed bottoms is ideal.
You can put the pointed bottom in soft ground to keep it upright. Very handy, when floors and pavement aren’t everywhere.
Maybe there’s also an advantage during production and for longevity. I’d imagine making and keeping bottoms sealed is easier when they’re pointy?
Might be! What I don’t know about pottery could fill libraries XD
Fun fact: The red dye mentioned in the illustration is why they were called Phoenicians, even though they were not just one people and called themselves differently.
The name Phoenician, used to describe these people in the first millennium B.C., is a Greek invention, from the word phoinix, possibly signifying the color purple-red and perhaps an allusion to their production of a highly prized purple dye.
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/phoe/hd_phoe.htm
Nice, I had no idea
Aromantic wood: sounds weirdly sexual…
No n, aromatic, like ‘aroma’. It’s for setting moods, wink wink, nudge nudge.
