ἐσχάρ-α,
Ionic dialect ἐσχάρη [ᾰ], ἡ, Epic dialect genitive and dative ἐσχαρόφιν (ἀπ᾽ ἐσχ- [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.169 ] Refs 8th c.BC+], ἐπ᾽ ἐσχ- [[ 5.59, 19.389)] Refs]:—hearth, fire-place, like{ἑστία}, [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (especially in 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”), ἡ μὲν ἐπ᾽ ἐσχάρῃ ἧστο 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.52; ἧσται ἐπ᾽ ἐσχάρῃ ἐν πυρὸς αὐγῇ [prev. work] 305 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of suppliants, ἕζετ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἐσχάρῃ ἐν κονίῃσι [[ 7.153. ] Refs]
__2 pan of coals, brazier, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 888, “V.” 938, compare 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 10.94, 95. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 Τρώων πυρὸς ἐσχάραι watch-fires of the camp, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.418. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II sacrificial hearth (hollowed out in the ground and so distinct from βωμός, structural altar, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Stephanus Byzantius see entry {βωμοί}, 9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc.; used especially in heroworship, 3rd c.BC: Neanthes Historicus 7J.), 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.420, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1016 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: but frequently used generally, altar of burnt-offering, πρὸς ἐσχάραν Φοίβου [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 205; ἐπ᾽ ἐσχάρᾳ πυρός [prev. author] “Eu.” 108 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἡμένας ἐπ᾽ ἐσχάραις[[ [prev. work] 806; Πυθική 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 1240; at Eleusis, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 59.116, compare 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator “fragment” 37; Ἡρακλειδῶν ἐ. “IG” 2.1658 (4th c.BC) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so βώμιοι ἐσχάραι structured altars, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 274; sometimes movable, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.3.12, 3rd c.BC(?): Callixinus Historicus 2, “PCair.Zen.” 13 (3rd c.BC). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]