oenochoe

See also: œnochoe and œnochoé

English

Alternative forms

• œnochoe, oenochoë, oinochoe, oinokhoe

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /iːˈnɒ.kəʊ.i/, /ˌiːnəʊˈkəʊi/, /ˈiːnəˌkəʊ.iː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /iːˈnɑ.kəʊ.i/, /iːˈnɑ.kə.wi/, /ˌinoʊˈkoʊi/, /ˈiːnəˌkoʊ.iː/, /ˈɛnəˌkoʊ.iː/

Noun

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).

Translations

Greek jug

• Catalan: enòcoa f
• French: œnochoé (fr) f
• German: Oinochoe (de) f
• Greek: οινοχόη (el) (oinochói)
• Italian: oinochoe m
• Russian: ойнохо́я (ru) f (ojnoxója)

Further reading

• oenochoe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia