oinochoe

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A form of oenochoe — A type of Ancient Greek pottery wine jug.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounoinochoe (plural oinochoes or oinochoai or oinochoae)

plural oinochoes · plural oinochoai · plural oinochoae

  1. alternativeAlternative form of oenochoe.

    Corinthian Late Geometric Light and Dark oinochoai have a wider neck […]

    1961, Hesperia, page 129
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    The absence of brush marks and the disposition of glaze suggests that these oinochoae were glazed by dipping: the vessels would have been gripped between two fingers, held upside down, and immersed in glaze solution.

    1978, Crawford H[allock] Greenewalt, Jr., Ritual Dinners in Early Historic Sardis (University of California Publications: Classical Studies; volume 17), University of California Press, →ISBN, page 15

    Moreover, there are some Rhodian oinochoae with a long neck and a trefoil mouth similar to that of the Pitane oinochoe, but with a different body.

    2008, Dirk Brandherm, Martin Trachsel, editors, A New Dawn for the Dark Age?: Shifting Paradigms in Mediterranean Iron Age Chronology, Archaeopress, →ISBN, page 34

    Chios produced bird oinochoae covered with the same whitish or pale brown slip (Boardman 1967: 142 pl. 48.548) typical of south-Ionian bird oinochoae but not otherwise found on north-Ionian products.

    2017, Alexander Vacek, “Al Mina and changing patterns of trade: the evidence from the eastern Mediterranean”, in Xenia Charalambidou, Catherine Morgan, editors, Interpreting the Seventh Century BC: Tradition and Innovation, Archaeopress, →ISBN, page 55

    Oinochoai were used in funerary rites by the larger part of the population; […]

    2020, Lieve Donnellan, editor, Archaeological Networks and Social Interaction, Routledge, →ISBN

    The 7th century trefoil oinochoai have a wider range of painted decoration including bichrome and banded (A. Ramage et al. 2021: HoB 408, HoB 481–483).

    2021, R. Gül Gürtekin-Demir, Lydian Painted Pottery Abroad: The Gordion Excavations 1950–1973, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 41
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