Английская Википедия:Carchesium (container)
A carchesium (Latin), carchesion, or karkhesion (Шаблон:Lang-grc-gre, karkhḗsion) was a kind of drinkware of the ancient Greeks and Romans. It is variously glossed as a cup,Шаблон:Sfnp beaker,Шаблон:Sfnp or goblet.Шаблон:Sfnp
Carchesia seem to have had several different formsШаблон:Sfnp but were generally somewhat elongated and narrower in the middle than at the top or bottom.Шаблон:Sfnp They were used for wine in ancient Greece[1] and Rome,[2] as well as milk.[3] They sometimes bore narrow handles.[4] Carchasia were notably used in ritual libation, with Vergil having Aeneas pour out 2 of pure wine, 2 of fresh milk, and 2 of sacred blood over the tomb of his father Anchises.[5] It was also used for pouring out offerings of honey.Шаблон:Sfnp In late Antiquity, Sidonius associated the vessel with the Chaldeans of Babylonia.[6]
The cup gave its name to the version of a crow's nest used on Greek and Roman ships and to the crane mechanism that could be operated from it.Шаблон:Sfnp It was glossed in Old English as Шаблон:Lang,Шаблон:Sfnp which appeared repeatedly in the dragon's hoard in Beowulf, probably to denote its antiquity and exoticness to listeners.Шаблон:Sfnp A large carchesium was given by King Charles the Simple of France to the Abbey of Saint Denis in the early 10th century.Шаблон:Sfnp
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- ↑ Sappho, Frag. 70 or 141.
- ↑ Vergil, Georgics, Book IV, l. 380.
- ↑ Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book VII, l. 247.
- ↑ Macrobius, Saturnalia, Book V, §21.
- ↑ Vergil, Aeneid, [[:s:la:Aeneis/Liber_V#75|Book V, ll. 77Шаблон:Ndash78]].
- ↑ Sidonius, Carmina II, l. 88.
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