A large Javanese or Indonesian jar or container, often used for storing water or food.
From Dutch 'antjar' or Indonesian 'antjar,' likely borrowed from a local Southeast Asian language. These large earthenware vessels were common in trade goods and domestic use throughout the Dutch East Indies.
These massive jars show up in centuries of shipwrecks and archaeological digs—they were so common in Asian trade that they're now helping us map ancient shipping routes across the Indian Ocean.
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