Meaning of œnochoe | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A type of Ancient Greek pottery wine jug.
   historical
2. Obsolete typography of oenochoe.
   alt-of, obsolete

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Examples

“Most of the finest vases with black figures, consisting of hydriæ, amphoræ, and œnochoæ, many of large size and of finest drawing and colour, have⟳ been found at Vulci.”

“‘Among them may be noticed the following:—Two very beautiful Greek painted vases, œnochoæ with red figures of a fine style;[…]’”

“We here find⟳ lions standing on their hind legs holding œnochoæ, and clothed in fishes’ scales, like⟳ the god Anu in Assyro-Chaldæan symbolism.”

“Between these objects and the body was a bronze vessel of the shape⟳ called by the Greek œnochoe, which enables the date⟳ of the burial to be fixed about the Fourth century B.C.¹ (Fig. 285).”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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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