Psykter

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Example of a psykter (Louvre)

A psykter (in Greek ψυκτήρ "cooler") is a type of Greek pot that is characterized by a bulbous body set on a high, narrow foot. It was used as a wine cooler. The psykter would be filled with wine, and then be placed in a krater full of cold water.^[1]

References

↑ Red-figured wine-cooler (psykter), signed by Douris as painter http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/gr/r/red-figured_wine-cooler.aspx

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v t e Pottery of ancient Greece
Wine vessel shapes	Dinos Kotyle Krater Kyathos Psykter Rhyton Skyphos
Tableware	Eye-cup Kantharos Kylix Oenochoe Olpe Patera Pinakion
Perfume, oil, and wedding shapes	Alabastron Aryballos Askos Lebes Gamikos Lekythos Loutrophoros Lydion Pyxis Stirrup jar
Funerary shapes and cultic shapes	Kernos Lekythos Loutrophoros Phiale
Storage shapes	Amphora Hydria Kalathos Kalpis Lebes Pelike Pithos Stamnos
Utilitarian ceramics	Chuta Epinetron Luchnos Situla
Techniques	Bilingual pottery Black-figure Bucchero Red-figure Six's technique Three-phase firing White-ground
Styles	Ancient Greek vase-painting styles
Potters and painters	List of Greek potters List of Greek vase painters List of Little Masters Name vase
Museums noted for pottery	Athens Basel und Ludwig Berlin Bodrum British Edinburgh Getty Heraklion Louvre Thera Ure Vatican Walters
Writers and books	Adolf Furtwängler Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Dietrich von Bothmer Edmond Pottier John Beazley John Boardman Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae
Special topics in Greek pottery	Frying pans Kalos inscription Nikosthenic amphora Panathenaic amphora Symposium Typology