Oenochoe

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Oenochoe

an ancient Greek wine pitcher with a single handle, an oval body, and a trefoil-shaped mouth. The oenochoe was widespread during the archaic and classical periods.

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(65) Ganymede's cock on an oinochoe in New York recalls the trefoil lip of the selfsame pot.

The evolution of the Pan Painter's artistic style

Tampa de uma olpe (tipo de oinochoe), atico, figuras negras.

The trumpet and the games/A trombeta e os jogos

For Greek art, head to Galerie Tarantino, which offers a Geometric style oinochoe from the late 8th century BC, or to the Merrin Gallery, which displays a wonderful Hellenistic bronze mask of Silenus, loyal companion to Dionysus, the Greek god of wine (Fig.

Around the galleries

Surrounding the dead man are various vessels, among them a basin, tripod, staff, footbath, two phialai, a kan-tharos, an oinochoe, and a volute krater, which "also appear to be flying chaotically in the air, as if they had been violently knocked or deliberately thrown" (Rosen 2007, 108-9).

New oil in old jars Hipponax's Lekythos-throw and Aristophanes' frogs 1198-247

Finally, a Late Corinthian oinochoe of the 6th century B.C., which also appears to copy a metal original, bears on its handle a relief snake that divides into two snakes crawling along the rim.

The tippling serpent in the art of Lakonia and beyond

He has currently a large Caeretan oinochoe, or wine jug, from 340-320 BC (Fig.

Collectors' focus

(85.) On an oinochoe by the Eretria Painter and a Lucanian krater (Kyrieleis 1969, p.129, nos.

Chairs, beds, and tables: evidence for furnished interiors in Hellenistic Greece

An oinochoe fragment, Agora P 25366 (Paralipomena 8; Beazley Addenda 2 3), attributed to the Manner of the Gorgon Painter by Beazley, preserves a mane and axilla nearly identical to that of the potty's lion but probably belongs to a chimaera; see Agora XXIII, p.