apotheke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apothekes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ποθήκη (ăpothḗkē). Doublet of bodega and boutique.
Senses: examples: text: The absence of earrings from the pre-Persian apothekes and the fact that only one was found on the South Hill indicate that earrings were infrequently used in archaic times at Olynthus.
ref: 1941, David Moore Robinson, Excavations at Olynthus: Metal and Minor Miscellaneous Finds, an Original Contribution to Greek Life (with a New Up-to-Date Map of Olynthus), Johns Hopkins University Press, page 94:
text: Three hitherto unknown figures and other fragments from the Nike Balustrade found in the apothekes of the Museum are being published by I. Meliades.
ref: 1953, The Journal of Hellenic Studies, volume 73, page 3:
text: […] (Treasury of Atreus, LH IIIA2: BSA 25, 356; Tomb of Clytemnestra, LH IIIA2/B1: BSA 25, 367; Heraion Tholos, LH II: BSA 25 , 336; several from the House of Shields, mid LH IIIB, Nauplion Museum apothekes).
ref: 1981, Elizabeth Bayard French, K. A. Wardle, editors, Well Built Mycenae: Ground Stone: Stone Vases and Other Objects, Aris & Phillips, →ISBN, page 6:
text: […] that future researchers will discover in retrospect that numerous Italian imports remain to be identified in apothekes throughout the Aegean area. […] Canaanite jars are lying unrecognized in the storerooms and apothekes of excavations around the Aegean.
ref: 1994, Eric H. Cline, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: International Trade and the Late Bronze Age Aegean, Tempus Reparatum, →ISBN, pages 79 and 97:
text: Sites that remain to be mapped include: Ioannimiti (IM15: large R settlement that extends 100-150 E along the beach toward Priniatikos Pyrgos, and an Ott port and possible small village with carob apothekes and a small harbour facility); […]
ref: 1999, Archaeological Reports, number 46, Council of the Society, page 147, column 1:
text: During studies in apothekes and libraries, I have come to meet many new friends and colleagues, a part of the work that is just as important as the results from a personal point of view.
ref: 2001, Michael Lindblom, Marks and Makers: Appearance, Distribution and Function of Middle and Late Helladic Manufacturers’ Marks on Aeginetan Pottery (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology; CXXVIII), Paul Åströms förlag, →ISBN, page 9:
text: Even in the early 20th century only a few buildings, primarily stone-built warehouses or apothekes and a cafenion, existed at Pacheia Ammos, so there was little settlement flanking this coastal route to the east of Kalo Chorio in the 18th and 19th centuries. […] The medieval to modern ‘landing-place’ at Katevati, just meters east of the mouth of the Istron, at present consists of a small concrete wharf at the base of ruined carob apothekes and a small chapel.
ref: 2004, Barbara J. Hayden, Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete (University Museum Monograph 119), volume 2 (The Settlement History of the Vrokastro Area and Related Studies), Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, →ISBN, pages 4 and 22:
text: […] Kostas showed to the full his abilities, energy, zeal and devotion, as well as responsibility and creativity of thought – thus he succeeded in getting the best result out of whatever work he was undertaking, both in the field and in the museum apothekes.
ref: 2016 November 23, Thanassis Papadopoulos, “Prologue”, in Constantinos Paschalidis, The Mycenaean Cemetery at Achaia Clauss near Patras: People, Material Remains and Culture in Context, Oxford, Oxon: Archaeopress, published 2018, →ISBN, page xx:
text: They granted me access to material in their possession and catered to my need for venues, research materials and photographs in various Greek apothekes and museums.
ref: 2017, Barbara Bohen, “Acknowledgements”, in Kratos & Krater: Reconstructing an Athenian Protohistory, Oxford, Oxon: Archaeopress, →ISBN, page xiii:
glosses: A Greek storeroom or warehouse.