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Plaque

Definition
See pinax.

Nestoris

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The nestoris is a wide-mouthed jar with two horizontal high-swung handles from shoulder to lip. It is South Italian and derived from a native, non-Greek shape.

Ovoid Aryballos

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A common shape in Middle Protocorinthian, this aryballos has an ovoid body that gradually narrows at the neck before flaring at its lip.

Psykter Calyx Krater

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Rarer than but similar to the psykter-amphora, the psykter-calyx-krater is a double-walled vessel meant to cool wine or water. The outer vessel has a spout near the shoulder through which ice or ice water was poured into the space between the two walls. It usually has a drain spout just above the foot, directly below the pour spout.

Pyxis Type A

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The canonical Type A pyxis has concave sides, a flat floor, and a flanged rim. Some have a low tripartite, quadripartite, or continuous foot, while others have no foot. The lid is thrown separately and is flat on top with a concave outer edge that continues and completes the curving concave wall of the pyxis body. It was created from the 6th c. into the first half of the 4th c. BCE.

Kalpis

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The so-called Kalpis or Continuous-curve Hydria differs from the Shoulder Hydria in several ways: the neck, shoulder, and body form a continuous curve; its vertical handle is cylindrical and is rooted on the neck rather than on the lip; its foot shape is more varied; its rim is concave on top; and it is usually smaller. It was popular between the end of the sixth through the fourth century B.C.

Rhyton

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‘Rhyton’ comes from a word for 'flow.' The term is used to denote a one-handled drinking cup whose bowl is fashioned into the shape of an animal’s head (sheep, donkey, etc.) or occasionally a more complex creation (pygmy and crane, African child and crocodile, mounted Amazon, camel and driver). It was originally made from horn, hence its shape. The idea was borrowed from Persia.

Lydion

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The lydion derives its name from the area of Lydia in Asia Minor. It is a fat, handleless perfume pot with an outturned flat lip used for the Lydian bakkaris perfume.

Patera

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Patera' is a Latin word for 'dish' that is sometimes used to designate a dish like the phiale.

Ring Askos

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The ring askos is a circular shape with a central cylindrical hole and a high belly with a marked shoulder. Most examples of the ring askos have been identified as Corinthian or Boeotian and it is thought to be the inspiration for the Attic askos, which will have a ring foot and a stouter body.

Alabastron

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Based on Egyptian alabaster prototypes, this small vase for perfume or oil has a broad, flat mouth, narrow neck, a thin, bag-shaped body (sometimes with lugs), and is usually footless. Used for women's toilet and for cult, its contents were extracted with a dipstick.

Cup Skyphos

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The cup-skyphos is a shallower version of the skyphos with a concave lip.

Nikosthenic Amphora

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An amphora that displays two flat strap handles. It can be found mostly in black-figure and was named after the signature: Nikosthenes "epoiesen."

Oinochoe Lid

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Made to fit the trefoil mouth of the vase, rough oinochoe lids are very common in the Orientalizing phase of Corinthian pottery.

Kernos

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A cult vase, the kernos has a large bowl on its foot and small bowls attached to the rims.

Lagynos

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A wine jug with low, bulging body, flat shoulder, tall neck and long vertical handle.

Bell Krater

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The bell-krater is an innovation belonging to the red-figure technique. The body rises from a low disk-foot or sometimes a modified disk-foot into the hint of a stem before expanding into the shape of an inverted bell with a mildly flaring mouth with a torus lip. It has sturdy, horizontal, cylindrical handles that are located high up on the body opposite one another and are slightly upturned.

Bowl

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The term bowl is used to designate a plain, open shape without handles.

Situla

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‘Situla’ comes from the Latin word meaning 'bucket.' It is a deep bowl for wine and was mainly made in South Italy. The swung handles suggest a derivation from metal.

Loutrophoros

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The loutrophoros, meaning ‘carrying to the bath,’ was a vessel used for ritual cleaning. It is a tall version of the neck-amphora with two very long vertical handles. A slightly different version imitates the hydria with two horizontal and one vertical handle (‘loutrophoros-hydria’).

Amphora Type B

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The amphora Type B has a flaring lip with straight or slightly concave sides, an echinus foot, and cylindrical handles. It is one of the oldest shapes, produced from the late 7th c. BCE until about 425 BCE.

Stamnos

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The term ‘stamnos’ is conventionally (and wrongly) used to designate a storing and mixing bowl with two small horizontal handles attached to a compact, bulbous body, a short neck and a lid.

Pseudo Panathenaic Amphora

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Pseudo Panathenaic amphorae are unofficial imitations of Panathenaic amphorae that lack prize inscriptions. They are visually almost identical to their official counterparts.

Hydria

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Taking its name from the Greek 'hydor,' meaning 'water,' the hydria is a water-pot for the fountain. It has a capacious oval body, two horizontal handles, and one vertical handle. This type of vase was manufactured in bronze, in coarseware, and in fineware. See also kalpis.

Pyxis Type C

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The Type C pyxis is a broad, squat version of the Type A and has deeply concave sides resting on a low ring foot. The flanged lid is convex, often with a metal ring handle. The container is usually twice as wide as it is high. It was made as early as the mid 5th c. and was popular from the last quarter of the 5th through the first half of the 4th c. BCE.

Krater

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From the Greek word meaning 'to mix,' a krater is a large, open bowl for mixing water and wine.

Neck Amphora

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An amphora where the neck joins the body at sharp angles instead of a smooth curve. The neck and the body are offset, meaning that the curve and shape changes radically where the neck meets the shoulder.
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