oenochoe

plural oenochoes · plural oenochoae · alternative œnochoe · alternative oenochoë · alternative oinochoe · alternative oinokhoe

1. historicalA type of Ancient Greek pottery wine jug.

   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.

   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

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   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.

   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

   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.

   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

   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).

   2014, François Lissarrague, The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet: Images of Wine and Ritual, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 34