chous

A squat, rounded form of oenochoe with a trefoil mouth.

An Ancient Greek unit of liquid measure correspondent to 12 cotylae.

It follows that the seah must equal the urna, and the hin equal 2 Attic choes.

Accordingly one Amphoreus Metrétés contained 12 Choes, 144 Kotyloi, 864 Kyathoi. The Amphoreus held 39·39 litres or 69·33 pints, or slightly over 8½ gallons. It may generally be assumed that the great pointed pottery jars in which wines were preserved, exported and sold were, each of them, such an amphoreus.