History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 1 (of 2)Walters, H. B. (Henry Beauchamp)
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History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 1 (of 2)
Walters, H. B. (Henry Beauchamp)
Mythology, Classical, in art; Pottery, Ancient; Pottery, Etruscan; Pottery, Greek; Pottery, Roman
Δεπαστρόν.—An uncertain form, variously explained.
Δεπαστρόν.—A bye-form of δέπας, in use at Kleitor in Arcadia.
Ἐνιαυτός.—Also known as Ἀμαλθείας κέρας. See under Rhyton (p. 193).
Ἔφηβος or ἐμβασικοίτας.—The significance of these names is not obvious,
but see p. 179 for the former.
Ἡδυποτίς.—A Rhodian name (cf. Pollux, vi. 96). Said to have been made
by the Rhodians in competition with the Athenian Θηρίκλειοι (see below,
p. 189). They were of light make, and not, like the Thericleian cups,
for the exclusive use of the rich.
Ἠθάνιον.—Apparently an Egyptian name.
Ἡμίτομος.—An Athenian cup, probably hemispherical (but see above, p.
174).
Ἴσθμιον.—A Cypriote term.
Κελέβη.—See under Krater (p. 169).
Κόνδυ.—An Asiatic name. Menander describes it as holding ten kotylae,
or about five pints.
Κρατάνιον or κρανίον.—Polemon mentions silver specimens in the temple
of Hera and treasury of the Byzantines at Olympia.
Κρουνεῖον.—It is doubtful if this word denotes a cup, as it is
catalogued with the κρατήρ, κάδος, and ὁλκεῖον.
Λαβρωνία.—A Persian cup, named from “greedy” drinking (λαβρότης ἐν τῷ
πίνειν).
Λάκαινα.—A cup made of Laconian clay.
Λέσβιον.
Μάνης.—A cup or bowl placed on the top of the kottabos-stand, and used
in the game of kottabos to receive the drops of wine thrown from the
kylix (_q.v._)
Μέλη.
Ὄινιστηρία.—A name given to the wine-cup dedicated to Herakles by the
ephebi at the time of entry into that rank.
Ὄλλιξ.—A wooden cup.
Παναθηναικόν.—Probably a variety of the Skyphos (_q.v._).
Πελίκη.—See under Amphora (p. 163). A generally disputed form.
Πέταχνον.—A wide flat cup (from πετάννυμι, “spread”).
Πρίστις.
Προυσίας.—Named from the king of Bithynia.
Προχύτης.—Called a cup by Athenaeus, but more probably to be identified
with the πρόχοος (p. 178).
Ῥέον or Ῥέοντα.—Probably a variant of ῥυτόν. It is described as taking
the form of a Gryphon or Pegasos, both of which occur in rhyta (p. 193).
Σαννακία.—A Persian cup.
Σελευκίς.—A cup named after King Seleukos.
Ταβαίτας.—A wooden cup.
Τραγέλαφος.—Probably a kind of rhyton (p. 193).
Τριύρης.—See p. 186, under κύμβιον.
Ὑστιακόν.
Χαλκιδικόν.—Probably named from the Thracian Chalkidike.
Χόννος.—A bronze cup (perhaps a kind of kylix).
ᾨδός.—A cup associated with the singing of σκόλια.
ᾨόν.—An egg-shaped cup.
ᾨοσκύφιον.—A double cup, apparently like an egg standing in an egg-cup.
Pollux also mentions the names Βησιακόν and Καππαδοκικόν; and Athenaeus
describes a γραμματικὸν ἔκπωμα, or cup ornamented with letters (in
relief), probably a late Hellenistic type.
We now come to the names which can be identified with existing vases,
or are described with some indication of their form.
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