apotheke

plural apothekes

1. A Greek storeroom or warehouse.

   Three hitherto unknown figures and other fragments from the Nike Balustrade found in the apothekes of the Museum are being published by I. Meliades.

   1953, The Journal of Hellenic Studies, volume 73, page 3

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   The absence of earrings from the pre-Persian apothekes and the fact that only one was found on the South Hill indicate that earrings were infrequently used in archaic times at Olynthus.

   1941, David Moore Robinson, Excavations at Olynthus: Metal and Minor Miscellaneous Finds, an Original Contribution to Greek Life (with a New Up-to-Date Map of Olynthus), Johns Hopkins University Press, page 94

   […] (Treasury of Atreus, LH IIIA2: BSA 25, 356; Tomb of Clytemnestra, LH IIIA2/B1: BSA 25, 367; Heraion Tholos, LH II: BSA 25 , 336; several from the House of Shields, mid LH IIIB, Nauplion Museum apothekes).

   1981, Elizabeth Bayard French, K. A. Wardle, editors, Well Built Mycenae: Ground Stone: Stone Vases and Other Objects, Aris & Phillips, →ISBN, page 6

   […] that future researchers will discover in retrospect that numerous Italian imports remain to be identified in apothekes throughout the Aegean area. […] Canaanite jars are lying unrecognized in the storerooms and apothekes of excavations around the Aegean.

   1994, Eric H. Cline, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: International Trade and the Late Bronze Age Aegean, Tempus Reparatum, →ISBN, pages 79 and 97

   Sites that remain to be mapped include: Ioannimiti (IM15: large R settlement that extends 100-150 E along the beach toward Priniatikos Pyrgos, and an Ott port and possible small village with carob apothekes and a small harbour facility); […]

   1999, Archaeological Reports, number 46, Council of the Society, page 147, column 1

   During studies in apothekes and libraries, I have come to meet many new friends and colleagues, a part of the work that is just as important as the results from a personal point of view.

   2001, Michael Lindblom, Marks and Makers: Appearance, Distribution and Function of Middle and Late Helladic Manufacturers’ Marks on Aeginetan Pottery (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology; CXXVIII), Paul Åströms förlag, →ISBN, page 9

plural apothekes

1. A European, especially German, pharmacy.

   This pharmacy and the storerooms are large and commodious, and the drugs and chemicals are arranged in the methodical classified style familiar in German apothekes.

   1899, The Pharmaceutical Era, volume 21, page 722, column 2

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   The other ſtructures are: the foundling-houſe, the grammar-ſchool, the poſt-office, the ſalt-magazine, the archives, the aſſignation-bank, the artillery-court, the printing-office of the ſenate, the chief apotheke, the mint, &c. […] The botanic or apothecary-garden, belonging to the imperial apotheke, is kept in an excellent ſtate. This apotheke is appointed to ſupply all the inferior apothekes of the lazarets of the empire with drugs and medicines.

   1800, W[illiam] Tooke, “Sketch of Mosco”, in History of Russia, from the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rurik, to the Accession of Catharine the Second. […], volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan, […], for T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], pages 384 (chapter III) and 387 (chapter IV)

   It should not be understood from this that infusions are less used in Germany and Switzerland than in England. The opposite is the case, and there are few apothekes in which infusions are not always on the hob. The Pharmocopœias give one general formula.—Ed. C. & D.

   1895 March 30, The Chemist and Druggist, volume XLVI, number 780, London, page 446, column 2

   There is a remarkable similarity in the appearance of all apothekes in all of Europe. I have seen them in Greece, Sicily, Italy, Austro-Hungary, Switzerland, all the German States, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, and equipment and arrangement is everywhere very similar.

   1907, The Pharmaceutical Era, volume 37, page 131, column 1

   Several other important apothekes would have been worth a visit had time permitted, and among them I may enumerate: Drs. A. Becheraz, Armin Kaisers, Julius Thomann, and Ducommun, Messrs. K. Dant, F. Gaudard, Lengacher, A. Lindt, Otto Jaggis, A. Moser Kunchel, Fritz Pulver, Vikt. Scholler, Walter Steck, Ad. Vatter, and Haaf & Cie.

   1910, Chemist and Druggist: The Newsweekly for Pharmacy, volume 77, page 174

   Thus the “Fighting League” was proclaimed by the party itself to be a purely private organization. Such a proclamation made an end of all “gleichschaltung” attempts, and resulted, at least temporarily, in saving Jewish apothekes and druggists from being deprived of their sources of income. […] While Jewish physicians who were not “front fighters” are no longer permitted to attend members of the various insurance companies’ sick leagues, and thus have found their practice almost destroyed because almost everybody in Germany is either insured or has the cost of his medical treatment defrayed by some one or another of the state’s welfare organizations, nevertheless Jewish apothekes are still permitted to cater to insurance companies and their clients.

   1934, American Druggist, volume 89, page 72, column 1