Oenochoe
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![Trifoil oenochoe, wild-goat style, ca. 625 BC–600 BC, Louvre](../../../upload/shared/thumb/7/72/Oinoche_Camiros_fantastic_Louvre_A318.jpg/160px-Oinoche_Camiros_fantastic_Louvre_A318.jpg)
An oenochoe, also spelled oinochoe, is a wine jug and a key form of Greek pottery. There are many different forms of Oenochoe. The earliest is the 'olpe' and has an S-shaped profile from head to foot.
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Pottery of ancient Greece | ||
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Wine Shapes | Krater • Kylix • Oinochoe • Skyphos • Psykter • Kyathos • Rhyton • Kantharos | |
Perfume Shapes and Wedding Shapes | Lebes Gamikos • Loutrophoros • Epinetron • Alabastron • Aryballos • Lekythos | |
Funerary Shapes and Cultic Shapes | Lekythos • Loutrophoros • Phiale | |
Storage Shapes | Amphora • Hydria • Lebes • Pithos • Stamnos • Pyxis | |
Techniques | Red-figure • Black-figure • Bilingual pottery • Six's technique • White ground | |
Painters | List of Greek Vase Painters• Amasis Painter • Exekias • Pioneer Group • Douris | |
Special Topics in Greek Pottery | Typology • Kalos inscription • Symposium • Kerameikon • Corpus vasorum antiquorum • John Beazley • Panathenaic Amphorae |