Choosen

Choenkannchen, around 410 BC Chr., Walters Art Museum , Baltimore 48.206

The Choenkännchen , also Choenkanne (from ancient Greek χέω, "pour"), is a small, stocky, bulbous oinochoe (jug) of type 3 with a cloverleaf mouth from ancient Greece . Their production begins after 500 BC. Most of them date from 430 to 390 BC. Chr.

It is a reduced form of the Chous (Χοῦς). This vessel was especially used during the Choen Festival (also known as the Kannenfest ) on the second day of the Dionysian Anthesteria for drinking competitions. On the occasion of the festival, small choes, the so-called choenkannchen, were given away to three-year-old toddlers. Their representations mostly show children playing. However, this most common interpretation is not entirely certain.

literature

• Gerard van Hoorn: Choes and anthesteria. Brill, Leiden 1951.
• Wolfgang Schiering : The Greek clay pots. Shape, purpose and change of form (= Gebr. Mann Studio series ). 2nd, significantly changed and expanded edition. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-7861-1325-4 , p. 142.
• Richard Hamilton : Choes and anthesteria. Athenian iconography and ritual. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 1992, ISBN 0-472-10280-X .
• Ingeborg Scheibler : Choenkannen. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 2, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01472-X , Sp. 1136.
• Alexander Heinemann: Chous . In: Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum . Volume 5: Personnel of Cult, Cult Instruments . J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2005, pp. 351-354.

Web links

• Choosen in the J. Paul Getty Museum
• Elisabeth Eberwein: Consecration of children at the Anthesteries? In: Forum Archaeologia 2/97