A porringer is a small, usually pewter, dish from which Europeans and colonial Americans ate their gruel or porridge, or other soft foods.
Porringers were usually cylindrical, between 4" to 6" in diameter, and 1½" to 3" deep; they had a flat, sometimes ornately decorated handle, or sometimes two handles at opposite sides.
synanthrope
A synanthrope (from ancient Greek σύν sýn "together, with" and ἄνθρωπος ánthrōpos "man") is an organism that evolve...
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A kouros (plural kouroi , Ancient Greek κοῦρος ) is the modern term given to those representations of male youths which first appear i... -
Epigraphy (from the Greek : ἐπιγραφή epi-graphē , literally "on-writing", "inscription") is the study of inscriptions ...
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