oenochoe

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See also: œnochoe and œnochoé

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From Ancient Greek οἰνοχόη (oinokhóē), from οἶνος (oînos, wine) +‎ χέω (khéō, I pour).

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oenochoe (plural oenochoes or oenochoae)

  1. (historical) A type of Ancient Greek pottery wine jug.
    • 1934, Percy Neville Ure, Aryballoi & Figurines from Rhitsona in Boeotia: An Account of the Early Archaic Pottery and of the Figurines, Archaic and Classical, with Supplementary Lists of the Finds of Glass, Beads and Metal, [], page 75:
      These two head oenochoae were buried with the kotyle by the Brygos painter (22. 8), B.S.A. xiv, pl. xiv, and the Red Figure kylix (22. 7), ibid. pl. xiii. b.
    • 1985, Josep Padró i Parcerisa, Egyptian-Type Documents from the Mediterranean Littoral of the Iberian Peninsula Before the Roman Conquest: Study of the Material, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, page 81:
      In contact with the upper part of the jar was a dish with rodent or bird bones and two oenochoae, all protected by big blocks of schist.
    • 1998, Nikolaos Chr Stampolidēs, Alexandra Karetsou, Athanasia Kanta, editors, Eastern Mediterranean: Cyprus, Dodecanese, Crete, 16th-6th Cent. B.C., University of Crete, →ISBN, page 88:
      As we have seen above, Black-on-Red Cypriot trefoil oenochoae together with objects from the Syropalestinian area had started arriving in Crete already before the middle of the 8 cent. B.C.
    • 2014, François Lissarrague, The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet: Images of Wine and Ritual, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 34:
      In the tondo of a cup in the Louvre we see a young slave, a pais, dip an oenochoe into a garlanded krater; he is holding a cup in the other hand and is about to serve drinks (fig. 20).

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