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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Skyphoi. A skyphos (Ancient Greek: σκύφος; pl.: skyphoi) is a two-handled deep wine-cup on a low flanged base or...
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    (or "true jellies"). The class name Scyphozoa comes from the Greek word skyphos (σκύφος), denoting a kind of drinking cup and alluding to the cup shape...
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    Agamemnon. Kratos and Bia appear in a late fifth-century BC red-figure Attic skyphos of the punishment of Ixion, possibly based on a scene from a lost tragedy...
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    band skyphos) are a specific form of ancient Attic vase. They are a hybrid between conventional skyphos and band cup. The shape of the skyphos is combined...
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    base and often handles Phiale Rhyton, c. 430 BCE. Skyphos, c. 740 BC Glaux skyphos Hermogenes skyphos Jugs Oenochoe Shape 1 Oinochoe Shape 2 Oinochoe Shape...
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    alternate side of the Skyphos depicts Augustus among Gods such as Venus, Cupid and Mars, who represent four conquered provinces. Skyphos cup of Tiberius on...
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    How they would have appeared can be seen in an intact example of a skyphos from the Getty Museum. (Williams 2006, p. 13) "The Warren Cup". British...
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    palace could hear her singing sweetly as she worked. In the 5th-century skyphos from Boeotia an apparently crippled Odysseus leans on a crutch while a...
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    Hermonax. Collections include sculpture work, Loutrophoros, amphora, Hydria, Skyphos, Krater, Pelike, and lekythos vessels, Stele, frescoes, jewellery, weapons...
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    to Achilles. On the left, Ajax and Odysseus standing, facing Achilles seated and Phoenix standing on the right. A skyphos (c. 480–470 BC) Louvre G146....
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    the first to have mainstream manufacturing. Greek hetaera urinates into skyphos (c. 480 BCE) 18th-century woman stands while urinating into chamber pot...
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    Heracles, Pholus and the centaurs, black-figured skyphos, ca. 580 BC, Louvre (L 63)....
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    Nearchos. Hermogenes invented a Little Master variety of skyphos now known as a Hermogenes skyphos. The Phrynos Painter, Taleides Painter, Xenokles Painter...
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    of the Amazon Kyme right, wearing taenia; Reverse: Horse walking right, skyphos (one handled cup) below, ΚΥΜΑΙΩΝ left, ΣΕΥΘΗΣ (magistrate) in exergue,...
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    Dancing maenad. Detail from an ancient Greek Paestum red figure skyphos, made by Python, c. 330–320 BC, British Museum, London....
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    variations of the kylikes, other cups available in the era include the skyphos, or the kantharoi. Kylikes were also popular exports, being the most common...
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    12: sacrifice of a heifer to Hercules Invictus, with a libation from the skyphos of Hercules 13 (Ides): festival of Diana on the Aventine (Nemoralia), with...
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  • Scyphomancy (Greek skýphos, cup, or drinking bowl, and manteia, divination) is divination using a cup or goblet. This may involve forecasting or representing...
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    taken as early evidence for the symposium in the Greek world. The cup is a skyphos or kotyle decorated in the Geometric style, 10.3 cm (4.1 in) in height...
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  • centuries, was erroneously interpreted as deriving from the Greek word skyphos (σκύφος, "cup"). In reality, the term probably derives from the Arabic...
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    27 tablets and fragments, ca. 51 stirrup jars and a possibly inscribed skyphos. VOL Kastro-Palaia (Volos) Two tablets found in 1950s excavations resurfaced...
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    Black-figure skyphos (drinking cup) from a kitchen in the Service Building...
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    scarlet cup fungus and scarlet elf cap. The name comes from the Greek skyphos meaning drinking bowl. Anamorphic forms were given the genus name, Molliardiomyces...
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    Skyphos donated by Platner Shear (Metropolitan Museum of Art)...
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    seems to have maintained long-distance trade contacts as the finding of a skyphos vessel from Aegean Greece suggests. During the 4th century BC, a Dardanian...
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    be identified as Aura by inscription. The oldest is a fifth-century BC skyphos from Taranto, now in the Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney (53.30)...
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    Fragment depicting Peitho, Aphrodite, and Eros. This skyphos fragment may be the earliest known artistic representation of Peitho, circa 490 B.C.E. (The...
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    exhibition space Mycenaean hydria, ca 1200 BC Late geometric monochrome skyphos, 750-700 BC Stone seal-pendants, 800-600 BC Wikimedia Commons has media...
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  • consumed, being considered barbaric. The usual drinking vessel was the skyphos, made out of wood, terra cotta, or metal. Critias also mentions the kothon...
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    Ecstatically dancing maenad. Detail from a Paestan red-figure skyphos, c. 330-320 BC...
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