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Vases used for drinking or pouring (wine or water)
Oinochoe
Kantharos Kylix
This vase is a kind of ladle or
This type of drinking-cup is This drinking-cup is sometimes small pitcher used for pouring
often seen held by called the "symposium-vase," wine from the krater into a
Dionysus in since it appears often in vase-
representations on vases. representations of symposia drinking-cup. The word
oinochoe means "wine-pourer."
Vases used for drawing water
Lebes Gamikos
Loutrophoros
This vase-type has three
Hydria The name of this vase means pieces: a bowl with handles, a
"carrier of washing-water",
The name of this three-handled and the vase was used only in lid (not shown here), and a
vase is derived from the Greek ritual contexts: at weddings, stand. The term means
word for water. Hydriai were to carry the water for the "marriage bowl," and the vase
used for drawing water, as was used for the same
ballot-boxes, and also as urns bridal bath; in funerals, to purpose as the loutrophoros
to hold the ashes of the dead. carry the water for washing in wedding rituals--to bring
They are commonly seen in the corpse of unmarried water for the bridal bath.
persons and to mark their
vase-representations of women graves. Vases of this shape Many of these vases are
drawing water at the fountain- are commonly decorated with decorated with scenes
house. depicting wedding
scenes of mourners or preparations or wedding
wedding processions.
processions.
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