olpe


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olpe

(ˈɒlpiː)
n
(Historical Terms) a spoutless ancient Greek jug or pitcher
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(2.) McLean MJ, Schmutz M, Wamil AW, Olpe HR, Portet C, Feldmann KF.
Sobre a tampa de uma olpe de figuras negras conservada em Paris (Fig.
German water supply company Kreiswerke Olpe in the North Rhine-Westphalia state has launched an open tender for the supply of electricity for its buildings and facilities.
See, I grew up in a village 10 miles south called Olpe. I pretended I didn't know them at all and pointed at the Wisconsin plates my ride had.
17, 1830, to a prosperous family in Olpe, Germany, she was raised to marry well.
= AP 6.293), the accessories of the philosopher Sochares include not just the perforated wallet (reminiscent of Odysseus in his mendicant's disguise) used by beggars to collect their scraps of food, but a "filthy oil flask" (admittedly not a lekythos in this instance, but an olpe, a vessel virtually indistinguishable from the oil flask).
The district police authority in Olpe for example, (approx.
BOWERY, N.; BITTEGER, H.; AND OLPE, H-R (EDS.) [GABA.sub.B] Receptors in Mammalian Function.
(20) The three Athenian vases that include (or potentially include) the figure of Dionysos as protagonist in their painted scenes are a black-figure olpe (21) of c.