pelike

Noun

pelike (plural pelikes or pelikai or pelikae)

1. A ceramic container of Ancient Greece, similar to an amphora.
   • The high twisted handles of Pl. XII, 60. 41, and the same sort of shape (but with boldly moulded lip), has been found at Kertch in the same grave as two red figure pelikae and lekythoi, some with r.f. palmettes, others with a check pattern filled in with white dots.1913, Percy N[eville] Ure, Black Glaze Pottery from Rhitsona in Boeotia (University College, Reading: Studies in History and Archaeology), London: Humphrey [Sumner] Milford, Oxford University Press...
   • Polychromy now carried all before it, even the outworn defences of Red-figure; and in the fourth century we find not only white and gold, but other colours—pink, blue, and green—not infrequently used on a group of vases, chiefly hydriae, pelikae, and elaborate toilet-boxes, found at Kertch in the...1919, Mary Antonie Beatrice Herford, A Handbook of Greek Vase Painting, Manchester University Press, page 103