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He said offered by Christie's, a glass oinochoe, matched one in the archive of items traded by Giacomo Medici, who was convicted of conspiracy in international trafficking in antiquities in 2004.

The shapes most commonly employed by the Athenian potters of this period are the amphora, hydria, kylix, oinochoe and lekythos, the first-named being the most popular.

Thus we have the pithos and amphora for storing wine, the krater for mixing it, the psykter for cooling it, the kyathos for ladling it out, and the oinochoe or prochoos for pouring it out; the hydria was used for fetching water from the well.