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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 2970106, member: 75937&quot;]Very fascinating thread, [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER] , and gorgeous coin. I can only chime in to answer one of your questions, but I can do so definitively.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It is an actual word in ancient Greek, οἰνοχόη, and it refers specifically to a vessel for taking wine from the mixing-bowl (κρατήρ; crater) and pouring it into cups.[1] It&#039;s an old word, being used in Hesiod&#039;s <i>Works and Days</i> (Hes.Op. 744), Thucydides&#039; <i>The Peloponnesian War</i> (Th.6.46), and Euripides&#039; <i>The Trojan Women</i> (E.Tr.820)</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott. <i>A Greek-English Lexicon</i>, revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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