type of drinking-cup/beaker; mast-head of ship; kind of derrick, crane
Latin word, found 19 times in the texts on Socratos.
Vergil, Georgics 4.380: et mater, “Cape Maeonii carchesia Bacchi:
Apuleius, Metamorphoses 11.16: … urabant de novi commeatus prospera navigatione. Iam malus insurgit, pinus rotunda splendore sublimis, insigni carchesio conspicua, et puppis intorta chenisco, bracteis aureis vestita fulgebat, omnisque prorsus carina citro limpid …
Vitruvius, On Architecture 10.2.10: … non modo ad has res, sed etiam ad onerandas et exonerandas naves sunt paratae, aliae erectae, aliae planae in carchesiis versatilibus conlocatae. non minus sine tignorum erectionibus in plano etiam eadem ratione et temperatis funi …
All forms of carchesium