Oenochoe
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An oenochoe, also spelled oinochoe, is a wine jug and a key form of ancient Greek pottery.
Terracotta trefoil oenochoe, Wild Goat style, c. 625 BC – 600 BC, in the Louvre. Below: bronze trefoil-mouthed oenochoe with Dionysus head on handle attachment, 330–320 BC, part of the Vassil Bojkov collection, Sofia, Bulgaria.
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Oinochoe Shape 1, H. 22 cm (8+1⁄2 in), diam. 13.5 cm (5+1⁄4 in), Eos (Dawn) pursuing Tithonus. Attic red-figure, 470–460 BC.
Oinochoe Shape 2, H. 23.5 cm (9+1⁄4 in), diam. 14.3 cm (5+1⁄2 in), Attic, 4th century
Pottery of ancient Greece
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Pottery, due to its relative durability, comprises a large part of the archaeological record of ancient Greece. The shards of pots discarded or buried in the 1st millennium BC are still the best guide
Oenochoe
…pour', sense "wine pourer"; pl.: oinochoai; Neo-Latin: oenochoë, pl.: oenochoae; English pl.: oenochoes or oinochoes), is a wine jug and a key form of ancient Greek pottery. Intermediate between a pithos (large storage vessel) or amphora (transport vessel), and individual cups or bowls, it held fluid for several persons…
1075 Keramikos Museum, Athens 5th century BC psykter Photo by Giovanni Dall'Orto, Nov 12 2009
Hellenistic Amphorae, stacked the way they were probably transported in antiquity, display in the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology
Disjecta membra (a fragment of ancient Greek pottery)
Neoclassical "Black Basalt" Ware vase by Wedgwood, c. 1815 AD