One almude, two colors in memory

The Almude L023, associated with the Casa de Passo de Vides, in Pedraça, served to transport and measure wine. The plug of 2015 gives it 28 liters and describes zinc plate painted brown, with paint to peel; the original color was blue. The capacity belongs to this invented piece, not to all almudes. Even a layer of paint helps to tell the life of an object.

The record indicates 55 cm tall and 28 in diameter and identifies Jacqueline Vilela Passos as owner. External measurement, capacity and property are distinct information: joints make the description more useful than the name of the object alone.

The brown painting and the traces of blue also show that a piece may have been transformed throughout use. The inventory does not give the date of repainting. The observation of the ink allows to count a change, but does not reconstruct all the episodes of the almude's life.