Vase vs Diota - What's the difference?
vase | diota |
(historical, Roman antiquity) A vase or drinking cup with two handles.
* 1817 , , Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa , Part 2: Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land, 4th Edition, Volume 6,
* 1832 , G. H. Smith, Appendix I: Observations on the Coinage and Currency of the Greeks'', ''A Manual of Grecian Antiquities ,
* 1865 , Dominic Ellis Colnaghi, Travels & Discoveries in The Levant , Volume 1,
As a noun vase
is vase.As a proper noun diota is
.diota
English
Noun
(en-noun)page 105,
- A Greek'' had recently discovered a vessel of ''terra cotta'' containing some small bronze coins of ''Naxos'', of the finest die, exhibiting the head of the bearded ''Bacchus'' in front, and a ''diota on the reverse, with the legend ??????: we bought ten of these.
page 262,
- The reasons for introducing these two devices are obvious; but the case of the diota, which is commonly placed horizontally under the feet of the owl, requires a separate explanation. Corsini says, in a dissertation of his Fasti Attici, that it is supposed by dome to refer to the amphora of oil, which was presented to the conquerors at the Panathenæa; but is himself of opinion, that it intended to denotes the manufacture of vessels in terra cotta, for which the Athenians were celebrated.
page 236,
- On the shore here I found three handles of Greek unpainted diotæ , on which magistrates? names are stamped.