Carchesium
(
καρχήσιον).
1.
A kind of cup, rather long, narrower in the middle than at either extremity, and with
handles (
ὦτα) stretching from the top to the bottom.
Asclepiades (in
Ath. 488 foll.)
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Carchesium.
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mentions
carchesia among those vessels which have feet. It was
a peculiarly Greek cup (Macrob.
Sat. v. 21init.), and generally of a splendid
nature.
2.
The same term designated the tops of a ship— i. e. the structure surmounting the
mast immediately above the yards (
antennae). See
Navis.