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Sometimes it is used as a coffin for a child's burial. Finally, it was often thrown away as soon as its contents were consumed: this is how Mount Testaccio came to be formed from the accumulation of amphora debris in Rome. 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In some cases, it features a body with a particular shape (human figure). This shape was common in Etruscan ceramics, typically in black clay, at the end of the 7th century BC. In fact, the canthara should be traced back to the Etruscan vase, rather than to another vase, improperly so called, which existed before it in Greece.\u003cbr\u003eCanthars are often found in the iconography of the initiation rituals of the cult of Dionysus, of which they are an attribute. The god himself invented the vase, and no one, not even Heracles (with whose cult it is sometimes also associated), could empty it. 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Plutarch, in his ‘Satire’, spoke of the inequality of ‘light’ and called for oil to be ‘tax-free’ for the poorest, as it was a vital necessity, like eating. 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