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œnochoe

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See also: œnochoé and oenochoe

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œnochoe (plural œnochoes or œnochoæ)

  1. obsolete typography of oenochoe
    • 1858, Samuel Birch, History of Ancient Pottery, volumes II (Greek, Etruscan, and Roman), London: John Murray, [], page 144:
      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.
    • 1870, Edward Edwards, Lives of the Founders of the British Museum; with Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors. 1570—1870., part II, London: Trübner and Co., [], page 714:
      ‘Among them may be noticed the following:—Two very beautiful Greek painted vases, œnochoæ with red figures of a fine style; []
    • 1889, Ernest Babelon, translated and enlarged by B[asil] T[homas] A[lfred] Evetts, Manual of Oriental Antiquities, Including the Architecture, Sculpture, and Industrial Arts of Chaldæa, Assyria, Persia, Syria, Judæa, Phœnicia, and Carthage, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons; London: H. Grevel & Co., page 292:
      We here find lions standing on their hind legs holding œnochoæ, and clothed in fishes’ scales, like the god Anu in Assyro-Chaldæan symbolism.
    • 1915, Ernest Albert Parkyn, chapter XI, in An Introduction to the Study of Prehistoric Art, page 273:
      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).