Pottery oinochoe, Greece, 550-500 BC

Pottery oinochoe, Greece, 550-500 BC
Period:
Dating:550 BC–500 BC
Origin:Greece,
Material:Pottery (all types)
Physical:13cm. (5.1 in.) - 226 g. (8 oz.)
Catalog:POT.MM.00478

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Links to others of type Oinochoe

Blue glass oinochoe, Roman, 1-100 AD
Glass oinochoe, Syria, 200-400 AD
Glass oinochoe, Syria, 200-400 AD
Glass oinochoe, Syria, 300-400 AD
Glass oinochoe, Syria, 300-400 AD
Iridescent glass oinochoe, 20 BC-100 AD
Iridescent glass oinochoe, Syria, 200-400 AD
Iridescent glass oinochoe, Syria, 200-400 AD
Iridescent glass oinochoe, Syria, 200-400 AD
Iridescent glass oinochoe, Syria, 300-400 AD
Iridescent glass oinochoe, Syria, 300-400 AD
Iridescent Oinochoe, Syria, 300-400 AD
Iridescent oinochoe, Syria, 300-400 AD
Iridescent oinochoe, Syria, 50-350 AD
Iridescent olpe, Roman, 100-300 AD
Iridescent olpe, Syro-Palestine, 100-300 AD
Trefoil mouth oinochoe, Roman, 75-250 AD
Trefoil mouth oinochoe, Syria, 200-400 AD
Trefoil mouth oinochoe, Syria, 200-400 AD
  Black-figure oenochoe with trefoil spout, depicting warriors and a maenad. Greece, 550-500 BC.

Oinochoe
An Oinochoie (sometimes spelled Oenochoe) is a “Jug with an ovoid body, a vertical loop handle, a flat base, and usually a trefoil (pinched) lip. Examples occur in many shapes and sizes, some having a circular mouth, a beaked lip, or a spout. There are two types:(1) with the neck set off from the shoulder; and (2) with a continuous curve from the neck to the body (the olpe is a form of this type)… There are glass oenochoe of small size (4 to 9 cm.) used as receptacles for toilet preparations…” (Newman 1977).

Bibliography (on Oinochoe)

Newman, Harold
1977 An Illustrated Dictionary of Glass. Thames and Hudson, London, UK.






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