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Weapons
Related occupations: bowyer (toxopoios); sword-maker (xiphourgos); spear-maker
(doryxos).
Sword (xiphos: Ar. Ach. 34 2 , Pax 553, Lys. 156 , 6 32 , Thesm. 14 0 ; machaira: Ar. Nub. 10 6 3,
1064, 1066); dagger (xiphidion: Ar. Lys. 53 ) ; big knife (xiphomakaira: Ar. Thesm. 112 7,
Theopomp.Com. fr. 8, fr. 26); spear (dory: Ar. Ach. 1118 , 1188 , 119 4 , Pax 356 , 553, Lys. 5 0 ,
985, 1151, Ran. 1015, Vesp. 1081, Amips. fr. 16, Hermipp. fr. 47, Theopomp.Com. fr. 26);
spearhead (longchê: Ar. fr. 418, Ach. 12 2 6 , Thesm. 8 2 6 , Ran. 1015); javelin (akontion: Ar.
Pax 553); bow (toxon: Ar. Thesm. 9 7 0 , Av. 1186); arrowhead (akis: Ar. Pax 443).
Basketwork
Related occupations: sieve-maker (koskinopoios); sieve-seller (koskinopôlês).
Different types of basket (kanoun: Ar. Ach. 2 4 4 , 253, Pax 948, 956, Av. 43, 850, 863,
Pherecr. fr. 145, Pl.Com. fr. 15, fr. 98; kaneon: Ar. Thesm. 822; kistê: Ar. fr. 28, Ach. 1086,
1098, Thesm. 284, Theopomp.Com. fr. 3; kremathra: Ar. Nub. 218 ; tarrhos: Ar. Nub. 2 2 6 ;
plekos: Ar. Ach. 45 4 , Pax 528; plektos: Ar. fr. 173; spyris: Ar. fr. 36, fr. 427, fr. 557, Pax 1005;
hyris: Ar. fr. 581; spyridion: Ar. Ach. 453, Pherecr. fr. 57; talaros: Ar. Ran. 56 0 ; kophinos: Ar.
f r. 36 3, f r. 6 8 0 , Av. 1310, Pl.Com. fr. 41, Stratt. fr. 14; kalathos: Ar. Av. 1325 ; kalathiskos: Ar.
Thesm. 822, Lys. 535, 579, Apolloph. fr. 1, Eup. fr. 242; arrhichos: Ar. Av. 130 9 ; sôrakos: Ar.
fr. 259); palm-leaf basket (koikinos: Pherecr. fr. 83); wicker flask (pytinê: Ar. fr. 880);
sieve (koskinon: A r. f r. 2 39 , f r. 4 9 7, Nub. 37 3 ; kinachyra: Ar. Eccl. 7 30 ; krêsera: Ar. Eccl. 9 91 ) ;
cage (oikiskos: Ar. fr. 434 [for partridges], fr. 446 [for birds]); rush-mat (psiathos: Ar.
Ran. 56 7, Ach. 8 74 , Lys. 921, 922; samax: Chionid. fr. 1; kanês: Crates I fr. 14, Cratin. fr.
210, Eup. fr. 218; phormos: Ar. fr. 168, fr. 591, Pl. 542).
Ropes and Cordage
Related occupations: rope-maker (schoinoplokos).
Rope (schoinion: Ar. Ach. 2 2 , Pax 36, 299, 437, Stratt. fr. 51; plektê: Pl.Com. fr. 19;
spartê: Ar. Av. 815 ; topeion: Archipp. fr. 35); brail [a rope used for shortening sail at sea]
(terthrios: Ar. Eq. 4 4 0 ; kaloi: Ar. Eq. 756 , Pax 458); cord (kalôdion: Ar. Vesp. 378, Eup. fr.
339); stern cable (epigyion: Ar. fr. 82, fr. 440); well-rope (himonia: Ar. Eccl. 351 ) ; net
(diktyon: Ar. Ach. 55 0 , Vesp. 367–8, Av. 194, 528, Pherecr. Fr. 241; amphiblêstron: Epil. fr.
3, Stratt. fr. 76); hunter’s net (arkys: Ar. Lys. 790); bird-hunter’s net (herkos: Ar. Av.
528, 1082; nephelê: Ar. Av. 194, 528; pêktis: Ar. Av. 528); fishing-line (hormia: Pl.Com.
fr. 11); bathing-scrubber (spartion: Ar. fr. 59b).
Textiles and Clothing
Related occupations: weaver (hyphantikos); seamstress (akestria); wool-worker (amor-
gantinos/erithos); dyer (bapheus); wool-weaver (erioplokos); wool-seller (eriopôlês); fuller
(gnapheus); clothes-mender (rhaptês); flock-weaver (gnaphallouphantês); clothes-seller
(himatopôlis); linen-worker (linourgos); washerwoman (plyntria); embroiderer (poikiltês) ;