Aryballos - Aryballos

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[Shape and Use]
In the early stages, the variety of pottery was relatively small, but after the Classical period, there were about 30 different types of Greek pottery vessels, depending on their uses. Of these, amphorae, perikes, and stamnos were mainly used for storing wine, oil, honey, and wheat; kraters, psykter, lebes, kantharos, and dinos were used for banquets; kylix and skyphos were drinking cups; small lekythos, aryballos, and alabastron were perfume bottles, but the white lekythos from the 5th century BC onwards was used only for funerals. Oenochoe with a trefoil rim were water pitchers (or wine jugs); hydria with vertical or horizontal handles were water jugs for women to draw water from a spring; long-necked lutropholos and lebes gamikos were used by brides at weddings; and pyxis, a cylindrical, lidded box for women's presentations. Other items included plates, bowls, and cups (Figure 4). …

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［器形と用途］
　初期の段階では陶器の種類は比較的少なかったが，古典期以後，ギリシア陶器の器形はその用途に応じてほぼ30種を数える。これらのうち，アンフォラ，ペリケー，スタムノスは主としてブドウ酒，油，はちみつ，小麦などの貯蔵用の器，クラテル，プシュクテル，レベス，カンタロス，ディノスは酒宴用，キュリクス，スキュフォスは飲酒用の盃，小さなレキュトス，アリュバロス，アラバストロンは香油入れ，ただし前5世紀以降の白地レキュトスは葬祭用にのみ供せられた。口縁部が三葉形をなすオイノコエは水さし(または酒つぎ)，垂直あるいは水平の把手のあるヒュドリアは婦人が泉から水を汲むための水甕，長頸のルトロフォロスとレベス･ガミコスは婚礼の花嫁用，円筒形の蓋付きのピュクシスは婦人用の化粧箱，そのほかに皿，鉢，碗などがあった（図4）。…

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