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Definition of Diota
1. n. A vase or drinking cup having two handles or ears.
Definition of Diota
1. Noun. (historical Roman antiquity) A vase or drinking cup with two handles. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Diota
1. an ancient two-handled vase [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diota
Literary usage of Diota
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on the Coinage of the Greeks and Romans: Delivered in the by Edward Cardwell (1832)
"Their legends and devices—The owl of Athens—The diota—Coin of the time of
Mithridates—Athenian brass—Wood and Dio- nysius—Dean Swift and ..."
2. A Descriptive Catalogue of Rare and Unedited Roman Coins: From the Earliest by John Yonge Akerman (1834)
"A table: above, a palm and an urn; below, a diota. 6. Same legend. A caduceus
and a club placed crosswise. The first is by far the rarest; ..."
3. Salaminia (Cyprus). by Alessandro Palma di Censola (1884)
"184 represents a diota of this class, with dark opaque body-colour traversed ...
Phoenician diota. A closely allied form of diota, but of very different ..."
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