Wednesday, November 02, 2022

 

A Wine Cooler

Red-figure psykter by Euphronios (late 6th century BC, found at Cerveteri), at St. Peterburg, State Hermitage Museum (Inv. No. Б. 1650, Inv. No. ГР. 4584), photographs from Kamilla Kalinina et al., "A Psykter with Hetaerae in the State Hermitage Museum Collection: History, Questions, Future Possibilities," tr. Catherine Phillips, Reports of the State Hermitage Museum 70 (2013) 79-94 (at 80):
The hetaerae are named on the vase: Sekline (playing an aulos), Agape (raising a cup), Palaisto (drinking), and Smikra (playing kottabos). Above and below Smikra's right arm is the inscription τὶν τάνδε λατάσσο, Λέαγρε, i.e., I throw this [drop] to you, Leagros. The vase is number 200078 in the Beazley database.

On the use of the wine cooler see Brian A. Sparkes and Lucy Talcott, Pots and Pans of Classical Athens, 6th printing (Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1977), no page numbers:
Transcribed text from Pots and Pans:
In warm weather wine is not served directly from the mixing bowl but from a psykter or wine cooler. Into the long-stemmed vessel goes the wine; into the mixing bowl, decorated or plain, goes cold water. The psykter is set inside the mixing bowl and a slender ladle reaches into its cool depths.
On the Hermitage wine cooler see Allison Glazebrook, "Prostitutes, Plonk, and Play: Female Banqueters on a Red-figure Psykter from the Hermitage," Classical World 105.4 (Summer, 2012) 497-524.



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