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English
Noun
œnochoe (plural œnochoes or œnochoæ)
- 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 T A 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).