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  • noun Plural form of costrel.

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  • Two more came from the trough where they had been filling their water costrels and joined the group.

    The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004

  • The Mid-Byzantine period saw a rise in the number of suburban sites (Graph 1), associated with the general economic and settlement recovery at the Byzantine rural provinces, represented by local common wares (single-handled cooking pots, table jugs, standing costrels and storage jars) and imported glazed tablewares with Green-and-Brown Painted, Slip Painted and Incised Sgraffito decoration (Figure 1).

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Pottery Studies 2003

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