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|auten=[[ῆρος]] ([[κεράννῦμι]]): mixingbowl, [[wassail]]-[[bowl]], in [[which]] [[wine]] and [[water]] were [[mingled]], to be distributed in cups; [[two]] parts of [[wine]] to [[three]] of [[water]] [[was]] a [[common]] [[mixture]]; κρητῆρα μίσγεσθαι, στήσασθαι, ‘[[set]] up,’ [[place]] at [[hand]]. The [[wassail]]-[[bowl]] [[was]] [[usually]] placed [[near]] the [[hearth]], and [[often]] on a [[tripod]] (esp. [[when]] [[several]] κρητῆρες were in [[use]] at the [[banquet]]); the contents were poured [[into]] the cups (δέπαα) by [[means]] of a filler ([[πρόχοος]], [[pitcher]]), Od. 3.339. Cut No. 8 shows (1) the [[ἀμφιφορεύς]], [[from]] [[which]] the [[wine]] [[was]] poured [[into]] the [[upper]], smaller mixing-[[bowl]], on [[which]] the [[πρόχοος]] stands. The [[second]] mixing-[[bowl]] served to [[contain]] the [[water]], and [[then]] the contents of [[both]] bowls [[may]] be imagined as [[mixed]] in the largest [[bowl]], [[which]] stands [[upon]] the [[tripod]], and [[from]] [[which]] the diluted [[wine]] [[was]] distributed. (Cf. [[cut]] No. 26.)

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