Definition of Kalpis

1. a water-jar [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kalpis

kalon
kalong
kalongs
kalonji
kalopsia
kalotype
kalotypes
kaloyer
kaloyers
kalpa
kalpac
kalpacs
kalpak
kalpaks
kalpas
kalpis (current term)
kalpises
kalsilite
kalsilites
kalsomine
kalsomined
kalsomines
kalsomining
kalua
kalua pig
kalumpang
kalumpit
kalumpits
kaluresis
kaluretic

Literary usage of Kalpis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman by Henry Beauchamp Walters, Samuel Birch (1905)
"The kalpis form sometimes occurs with black figures, but only in small late ... Italy the kalpis is fairly popular, but the body is more cylindrical and the ..."

2. Debris from a Public Dining Place in the Athenian Agora by Susan I. Rotroff, John Howard Oakley (1992)
"Hydria, kalpis Fig. 7, PI. 38 PH 9.6; Diam. of rim 14.0; max. p. dim. 17.5. Seven joined sherds from the ... Hydria, kalpis PI. 36 PH 4.0; pW 6.0; Th. 0.4. ..."

3. History of Ancient Pottery, Greek, Etrusean, and Roman by Henry Beauchamp Walters, Samuel Birch (1905)
"The kalpis form sometimes occurs with black figures, but only in small late specimens, ... In the vases of Southern Italy the kalpis is fairly popular, ..."

4. Journal by Royal Institution of Great Britain (1891)
"But the gem of the lot is a kalpis, nearly 16 inches high, representing Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides, which derives additional interest from the ..."

5. Corinthian Hellenistic Pottery by G. Roger Edwards (1975)
"If Attic analogy is pertinent the kalpis forms indicate that they are not earlier than the late 6th century BC 4 Miss Judith ..."

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