单词 | kernos |
释义 | kernosn. Archaeology. An ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern earthen vessel with small cups around the rim or fixed in a circle to a central stem. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > with small cups on rim kernos1903 1903 J. E. Harrison Proleg. Study Greek Relig. iv. 158 Kernos, a vessel made of earthenware, having in it many little cups fastened to it, in which are white poppies, wheat, barley..; and he who carries it..tastes of these things. 1955 L. Woolley Alalakh xii. 344 Three black impressed sherds, one from a beaker and one from a kernos. 1960 T. Burton-Brown Early Mediterranean Migrations ii. 35 The kernos shape..is known in Azarbaijan, for there is an unpublished example from there exhibited in the Tehran Museum. 1967 A. D. Lacy Greek Pottery Bronze Age v. 260 The kernos or cluster vase..is a composite vessel in which one or more rings of small cups are mounted upon a central stem. Kernoi have been found at Phylakopi in Milo, and in Crete. 1971 Ashmolean Mus. Rep. Visitors 1970 16 Purchased:..a Proto-White Painted kernos, Late Cypriot IIIB. 1972 Y. Yadin Hazor ii. vii. 101 The cultic aspect of the whole area is further attested by the enormous nests of vessels, which included incense-stands, ‘cups and saucers’, kernoi, and ‘rattles’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1903 |
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