diota

From Latin, from Ancient Greek, “two-handled”. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

diota (plural diotas or diotae)

1. (historical, Roman antiquity) A vase or drinking cup with two handles.
   • 1817, Edward Daniel Clarke, Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, Part 2: Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land, 4th Edition, Volume 6, page 105,

     A Greek had recently discovered a vessel of terra cotta containing some small bronze coins of Naxos, of the finest die, exhibiting the head of the bearded Bacchus in front, and a diota on the reverse, with the legend ΝΑΞΙΩΝ: we bought ten of these.

   • 1832, G. H. Smith, Appendix I: Observations on the Coinage and Currency of the Greeks: A Manual of Grecian Antiquities, page 262:

     The reasons for introducing these two devices are obvious; but the case of the diota, which is commonly placed horizontally under the feet of the owl, requires a separate explanation. Corsini says, in a dissertation of his Fasti Attici, that it is supposed by dome to refer to the amphora of oil, which was presented to the conquerors at the Panathenæa; but is himself of opinion, that it intended to denotes the manufacture of vessels in terra cotta, for which the Athenians were celebrated.

   • 1865, Charles Thomas Newton; Dominic Ellis Colnaghi, Travels & Discoveries in The Levant, volume 1, page 236:

     On the shore here I found three handles of Greek unpainted diotæ, on which magistrates′ names are stamped.

• diota in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• Todai, aotid