"Lina" of Romano
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"Lina", or cave urns, are known since ancient times, as a way of storing and keeping products for a long time. They were large-capacity jars buried in the earth from which only their stone round lid protruded and in them were mainly stored pulses, wheat, and oil. In the past years, another widespread use of the urns in Limnos was the preservation and aging of wine, when they filled the urn with wine and then sealed it with plaster and resin.
Today, these cave urns, are met massively in the village of Romano and take us to this old practice, which is dated at the depths of the centuries, in the prehistoric city of Poliochne, where the great grandsons of god Dionysus stored and preserved their cereals and wine.