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pel·i·ke

 (pĕl′ĭ-kā′)
n.
A two-handled jar having a broad rounded shape and a wide bottom, used by ancient Greeks and Romans for storing wine and oil.

[Greek pelikē; akin to pella, milk pail, cup, and pelix, kylix, pitcher, of unknown origin.]
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Formas Quantidade Skyphos 219 Pelike 2 Oinochoe 261 Lekythos 3 Kantharos 1 Hydria 3 Kylix 3 Total 492 Fonte: Elaboracao do autor, a partir de dados do Beazley Archive.
Fragments of a red-figure pelike attributed to the Pan Painter in the collection of the J.
As a result the whole found sampling of thirteen objects included two objects, fully complying with the request: Terracotta 'Tanagra' figure of a woman wearing a sunhat (3rd century BC) and Red-figure Pelike. Attica (330-320 BC), and two objects that partially match the request: Aphrodite.
Deborah Steiner in her essay, "Swallow This: A Pelike within Late Archaic Song and Visual Culture," offers a new interpretation of a late sixth-century pelike, a vase that presents an intriguing combination of words and images.
(40) For instance a fragment of pelike from Tarentum (LIMC s.
On both sides of an earlier pelike now in Berlin, a maenad with a long sword holds up the bloodied leg of a fawn (fig.
2,133-1,991 BC and Jean-David Cahn offer an Attic red-figure pelike, formerly in the collection of Charles Gillot.
(44) The two shapes in common that the Pan Painter and Myson most often decorated, the pelike and column krater, are the shapes that the Pan Painter seems to have preferred in his younger days, according to Beazley's stylistic observations.
163-74; see Figure 2) dated to the period 440-20 BCE: on one side of each pelike is a pair of figures (in two cases male-female [Lezzi-Hafter, nos.
Horses, such as the one being ridden by a huntsman on an Athenian red-figure pelike attributed to Beazley's `Achilles Painter', were not cheap.
On a well-known pelike in Saint Petersburg associated with the Pioneer Group of vase painters and dated to c.
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