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Ancient Greek vase shape; drinking cup
A skyphos (Ancient Greek: σκύφος; pl.: skyphoi) is a two-handled deep wine-cup on a low flanged base or none. The handles may be horizontal ear-shaped
Skyphos
Class of marine cnidarians, true jellyfish
(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
Scyphozoa
Personification of strength in Greek mythology
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
Kratos_(mythology)
Enchantress-goddess in Greek mythology
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
Circe
Princess in Greek mythology
(left), Heracles (centre), and Hermes (right) on a Sicilian red-figure skyphos, dating to c. 350–340 BC The Death of Alcestis by Angelica Kauffmann. Admetus
Alcestis
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
Typology_of_Greek_vase_shapes
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
Band_skyphos
Ancient Roman objects found near Pompeii
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
Boscoreale_Treasure
Style of painting on ancient Greek vases
Nearchos. Hermogenes invented a Little Master variety of skyphos now known as a Hermogenes skyphos. The Phrynos Painter, Taleides Painter, Xenokles Painter
Black-figure_pottery
Ancient Greco-Roman drinking cup
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
Warren_Cup
Centaur and friend of Heracles in Greek myth
Heracles, Pholus and the centaurs, black-figured skyphos, ca. 580 BC, Louvre (L 63).
Pholus_(mythology)
Device which aids a person with a vagina to urinate while standing upright
the first to have mainstream manufacturing. Greek hetaera urinates into skyphos (c. 480 BCE) 18th-century woman stands while urinating into chamber pot
Female_urination_device
Festival of Dionysus in Athens
Paestan red-figure skyphos, ca. 330-320 BC.
Lenaia
Ancient Greek or Etruscan drinking cup
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
Kylix
Divination using a cup or goblet
Scyphomancy (Greek skýphos, cup, or drinking bowl, and manteia, divination) is divination using a cup or goblet. This may involve forecasting or representing
Scyphomancy
Female follower of Dionysus
Dancing maenad. Detail from an ancient Greek Paestum red figure skyphos, made by Python, c. 330–320 BC, British Museum, London.
Maenad
Ecclesiastical footed drinking cup, often with a central knop
vertical handles, reflecting classical cup shapes such as the kantharos and skyphos. Over time, the size of the bowl diminished and the base became larger
Chalice
National museum in Athens, Greece
Hermonax. Collections include sculpture work, Loutrophoros, amphora, Hydria, Skyphos, Krater, Pelike, and lekythos vessels, stele, frescoes, jewellery, weapons
National Archaeological Museum, Athens
National_Archaeological_Museum,_Athens
Headband or fillet of Ancient Greece
symposiast playing with his taenia, 450–440 BCE Eros bearing tainia, red-figure skyphos, Lucania 420–400 BCE Cyprian Aphrodite coiffed with diadem and tainia,
Tainia_(costume)
Divine personification of the breeze in Greek and Roman mythology
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)
Aura_(mythology)
Date Description Museum record Berlin, Antikensammlung bowl skyphos F 2591 fragment of a skyphos 31573, V. 162 Bologna, Museo Civico fragment of a krater
Penthesilea_Painter
Greek personification of persuasion
Fragment depicting Peitho, Aphrodite, and Eros. This skyphos fragment may be the earliest known artistic representation of Peitho, circa 490 B.C.E. (The
Peitho
Archaeological site in Crete, Greece
Black-figure skyphos (drinking cup) from a kitchen in the Service Building
Azoria
Greek mythology character, founder of Thebes
Ancient Greek second-century BC skyphos depicting the founding of Thebes by Cadmus, Archaeological Museum of Thebes.
Cadmus
(c.750–720 BCE) Greek inscription
early Greek alphabet and epigraphy. The cup of Acesander, identified as a skyphos, was discovered along with several other inscribed drinking vessels in
Acesander's_cup
Genus of pterodactyliform pterosaurs
generic name, Skiphosoura, combines the anglicized Ancient Greek words skyphos, meaning "sword" and oura, meaning "tail", referencing the short, tapered
Skiphosoura
Area that comprised the west and northwestern region of Anatolia
of the Amazon Kyme right, wearing taenia; Reverse: Horse walking right, skyphos (one handled cup) below, ΚΥΜΑΙΩΝ left, ΣΕΥΘΗΣ (magistrate) in exergue,
Aeolis
Feature of poetic metre
Dancing maenad. Detail from an ancient Greek Paestum red figure skyphos, made by Python, c. 330–320 BC. British Museum, London
Anaclasis_(poetry)
also given to a type of ancient Greek vase broadly similar in shape to a skyphos but more closely resembling a kantharos. Nestor's Cup From the Carmen de
Cotyla
Male nature spirit with horse or goat features found in Greek mythology
Satyr escorting the Basilinna (Queen), Attic red figure skyphos. c. 440 BC
Satyr
Ancient Italic population
Symposia equipment was not, however, confined exclusively to male graves—the skyphos vessel appears across tombs of both men and women, and it is one of the
Lucanians
Capital and largest city of Kosovo
seems to have maintained long-distance trade contacts as the finding of a skyphos vessel from Aegean Greece suggests. During the 4th century BC, the Kingdom
Pristina
Greek mythical character
The death of Actaeon on red-figure skyphos from Paestum, 4th century BC (Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum).
Actaeon
Scheduled celebration in ancient Rome
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
Roman_festivals
Type of Byzantine coin
centuries, was erroneously interpreted as deriving from the Greek word skyphos (σκύφος, 'cup'). In reality, the term probably derives from the Arabic
Scyphate
Eighth century BC wine cup
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
Nestor's_Cup_(Pithekoussai)
Greek mythical figure
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.
Phoenix_(son_of_Amyntor)
Phase of Greek art, characterized largely by geometric motifs in vase painting
875-850 BC Clay amphora, c. 800-760 BC, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens Clay skyphos, c. 775-750 BC, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens Late Geometric period lasted
Geometric_art
British art historian (1894–1963)
Etruscan skyphos, c. 400 – c. 300 BCE
Winifred_Lamb
Ancient Greek vase painter
Geburtstag von Ulf Jantzen (Wiesbaden 1969) p. 141-152. Elfriede R. Knauer: Ein Skyphos des Triptolemosmalers (Berlin 1973) (Winckelmannsprogramme der Archäologischen
Triptolemos_Painter
Genus of fungi
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
Sarcoscypha
Syllabic script used for writing Mycenaean Greek
27 tablets and fragments, ca. 51 stirrup jars and a possibly inscribed skyphos. VOL Kastro-Palaia (Volos) Two tablets found in 1950s excavations resurfaced
Linear_B
Ancient Greek painted pottery style
Common painted shapes include pelike, chalice krater, belly lekythos, skyphos, hydria and oinochoe. Scenes from female life are very common. Mythological
Red-figure_pottery
Ancient Greek fine pottery
Application of an iron-rich clay slip (clay-paint) on the clay body of a skyphos, before firing. Contemporary black glaze pottery production at THETIS'
Black-glazed_Ware
Group of Attic vase painters
the centre of Greek vase painting, they adopted the Komast cup and the skyphos (known as kotyle. The KY Painter introduced the column krater. Also popular
Comast_Group
Ancient Greek potter from Attica
cups with depictions of women's heads on the band. The band skyphos, a specific type of skyphos with decoration resembling that of band cups is named after
Hermogenes_(potter)
consumed, being considered barbaric. The usual drinking vessel was the skyphos, made out of wood, terra cotta, or metal. Critias also mentions the kothon
Ancient_Greek_cuisine
cups, several types of kylix also just called cups, kantharos, phiale, skyphos, oinochoe and loutrophoros, vases for oils, perfumes and cosmetics, including
Pottery_of_ancient_Greece
Thracian lunar goddess
which was called the Bendidia / Bendideion (Βενδίδειον). A red-figure skyphos, now at Tübingen University, of c. 440–430, seems to commemorate the arrival
Bendis
Ancient Greek versatile hunting stick and weapon
Retrieved 21 September 2025. Galerie Mythologique, pages. 186-187 "cameo; skyphos | British Museum". Retrieved 21 September 2025. "Theocritus, Epigrams,
Lagobolon
Russian-Latvian singer (born 1969)
2012 at the Wayback Machine by Zakhar Prilepin, Novaya gazeta, 07-04-28 Skyphos Songs, sound of reconstructed ancient (500 BCE) angular harp found by archeologists
Elena_Frolova
Etruscan goddess
Catha does. Catha's underworld connections can be best seen on an Attic skyphos from a necropolis in San Cerbone dating to the 5th century BCE with an
Catha_(mythology)
Region in Italy
An Attican skyphos in the style of the painter Theseus (5th century B.C.) from Massafra, in the Provincial Museum of Sigismondo Castromediano in Lecce
Culture_of_Apulia
Dance leading to a trance and a feeling of ecstasy
Ecstatically dancing maenad. Detail from a Paestan red-figure skyphos, c. 330–320 BC.
Ecstatic_dance
lower half of the vessels was now often ribbed. Apart from oinochoai, skyphos and pelikes, shapes also included bottles, lekythoi, bowls and kantharoi
Gnathia_vases
Museum in Agios Andreas, Sifnos, Greece
exhibition space Mycenaean hydria, ca 1200 BC Late geometric monochrome skyphos, 750-700 BC Stone seal-pendants, 800-600 BC Wikimedia Commons has media
Archaeological Collection of Agios Andreas on Sifnos
Archaeological_Collection_of_Agios_Andreas_on_Sifnos
Ancient Greek drinking vessel
Attic skyphos depicting a hoplite, c. 490–480 BC
Condy_(drinking_vessel)
Form of epigraph found on Attic vases and graffiti in antiquity
inscription, c. 515 BC Kalḗ woman bathing at the laver, with a water bucket, a skyphos, and a wineskin, c. 500 BC A sexual solicitation scene with generic kalos
Kalos_inscription
Book chapter
pedigree: Odysseus, returning home after long years of war, scours his home of the suitors of his wife Penelope, in Homer's tale. Greek skyphos, 440 BC
The_Scouring_of_the_Shire
Ancient Greek city
of the Amazon Kyme right, wearing taenia; Reverse: Horse walking right, skyphos (one handled cup) below, ΚΥΜΑΙΩΝ left, ΣΕΥΘΗΣ (magistrate) in exergue,
Cyme_(Aeolis)
Cave on Salamis Island, Greece
and worship. The most notable discovery was a fragmentary black-glaze skyphos dating from the late 5th century BC, with the letters ΕΥΡΙΠΠ, clearly part
Cave_of_Euripides
Relief in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens
copy in machined aluminum. A very similar scene is also depicted on a skyphos from Boeotia, with a rich-dressed Demeter handing the laurel-wreathed Triptolemus
Great_Eleusinian_Relief
Small container for drinks
bother with pottery. The most important shapes are the kylix, kantharos, skyphos, lip cup, and the breast-shaped mastos with no base. The Roman Empire used
Cup
vessel shapes preferred by that group, including lekanis, tripod kothon and skyphos. In contrast, he also painted quite innovative lekythoi with pronounced
C_Painter
Ancient sculpture from Locri, Italy
(left leg over right leg, viewed from the left) on an Attic red-figure skyphos from Chiusi, dated ca. 440 BC. The Ludovisi Throne's less accomplished
Ludovisi_Throne
Ancient Roman town in Campania, Italy
Perseus with head of Medusa Fresco detail of a planisphere (Antiquarium) Skyphos in obsidian with incastonatura (Naples Museum) Named for the fresco depicting
Stabiae
Ancient Greek vase painter
06.1021.69 • Amphora 56.171.10 Paris, Musée National du Louvre Schalen-Skyphos A 479 • Amphora F 25 • Amphora F 26 • Oinochoe F 30 • Amphora F 36 • Schale
Amasis_Painter
Village in Adjara, Georgia
of earlier dune-settlement. Artifacts unearthed there include an Attic skyphos of Corinthian type and lekythos of the Haimon painter, dated to c. 470
Tsikhisdziri, Kobuleti Municipality
Tsikhisdziri,_Kobuleti_Municipality
Hamlet in the municipality of Latina, Lazio, Italy
archaeologists discovered the oldest known wine vessel in central Italy here—a clay skyphos dated to the 5th century BCE. The former iron mill and strawboard factory
Le_Ferriere,_Italy
600–575 BC) and specialised in decorating skyphoi. He is named after a skyphos with an image of Herakles in the cave of Pholos, combating several centaurs
Pholoe_Painter
Type of Ancient Greek vase
Kabirian skyphos. Procession to the sanctuary of the Kabiria, from Thebes. Mystai Painter. Late 5th, early 4th century BC.
Kabiria_Group
Archaeology museum in Ankara, Turkey
museum Rhyton Bronze Achaemenid Persian Erimtan museum Skyphos Glazed terracotta Erimtan museum Skyphos Glazed terracotta Erimtan museum Medusa handled jug
Erimtan Archaeology and Arts Museum
Erimtan_Archaeology_and_Arts_Museum
Greek potter
Antikensammlung V. I. 4604: 'Gordion cup', from Gordion Delphi: Fragment of a skyphos or kantharos Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco 4209: volute krater,
Ergotimos
Town of ancient Boeotia
Skyphos showing Dionysus and female musicians dated to 520-520 BCE found at the ruins of Mycalessus
Mycalessus
Kabirian skyphos. Procession towards the sanctuary of the Kabiria. Mystai Painter. Late 5th/early 4th century BC.
Boeotian_vase_painting
Museum in Nafplio, Argolis, Greece
Clytemnestra dated to 440 BCE, and a Boeotian pseudo-red-figure Cabeirian skyphos (425-400 BCE) depicting Odysseus enjoying the hospitality of Circe in her
Archaeological Museum of Nafplion
Archaeological_Museum_of_Nafplion
Marble sculpture from the Acropolis of Athens
very well made. It is found on a depiction of Apollo on a white-tailed skyphos preserved at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The seated figure is in chiton
Metopes_of_the_Parthenon
Name referring to unknown vase decorator
An Attic black-figure skyphos attributed to the Theseus Painter, c. 500 BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Theseus_Painter
British TV series or programme
Museum Episode 18: Skyphos – (Original Air Date: 11 January 2017) Summary: Great Aunt Lizzie tells the story of Charlotte and the Skyphos. A servant is preparing
Teacup_Travels
Archaeological site in Larino, Italy
panels with figurative and decorative subjects; in two of them appear a skyphos and an aryballos and in two others dolphins. The figures, despite their
Larinum
his hand on the basis of style. John Beazley gave him the name from a skyphos now at Schwerin with a signature indicating that it was made by the potter
Pistoxenos_Painter
Collection of artifacts
Woman's head skyphos (1984.59)
Apulian picture vases for a funeral ceremony (Berlin Antique Collection)
Apulian_picture_vases_for_a_funeral_ceremony_(Berlin_Antique_Collection)
4th-century BC Greek (Paestan) Vase painter
Berlin, Antikensammlung Calyx krater F 3044 [1] Kassel, Staatliche Museen Skyphos Malibu, J. Paul Getty Museum Calyx krater 81.AE.78 (2006 als Fund aus einer
Asteas
Mycenaean tholos tomb in Argolis, Greece
fire was lit. The tomb was permanently sealed, and a calf and a small skyphos were sacrificed on a stone heap in front of the entrance. As finds under
Kazarma_tholos_tomb
British classicist and poet (1911–2004)
published a short article in The Journal of Hellenic Studies in 1935, on a skyphos painted by the fifth-century BCE Pan Painter: his father had introduced
Martin_Robertson
American art historian
as the Ara Pacis, the Augustus of Prima Porta, the Farnese Cup, and the Skyphos. In 2006, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to further work on similar
John_Pollini
Greek classical Archaeologist
Academia.edu. Retrieved 19 May 2012. Attic, Boeotian or Euboean? An orphan skyphos from Rhitsona revisited by Victoria Sabetai. Ronald M. Burrows and Percy
Victoria_Sabetai
Museum in Andros, Greece
Fragment of geometric pottery with additionally drawing, Zagora Geometric skyphos, Zagora, 750-700 BC Geometric kotyle, Zagora, 750-690 BC Room of archaic
Archaeological Museum of Andros
Archaeological_Museum_of_Andros
Archaeologist, academic, and author (born 1967)
volume in honor of Gocha R. Tsetskhladze examined an Athenian black-figure skyphos featuring three Gorgons, analyzing its iconography, audience, cultural
Tyler_Jo_Smith
Type of glass with gold leaf between layers of glass
throughout Weitzmann nos. 503, 507–8, 510 are late examples Gold-glass skyphos (drinking cup) fragment, Metropolitan Museum of Art (23.160.76) Rotroff
Gold_glass
Bakis Balius and Xanthus Ballista Baltimore Painter Banausos Band cup Band skyphos Baptes Barbiton Barytone Basileus Basilides (Stoic) Basilides of Tyre Basilides
Index of ancient Greece-related articles
Index_of_ancient_Greece-related_articles
Greek vase painter active between 520 and 490 BCE
"greatest draughtsman in early red-figure vase painting". Komast with a skyphos, a staff and pipes case, tondo from a red-figure plate by Epiktetos, ca
Epiktetos
Musee Vivenel bowl 1090 • bowl 1104 Ferrara, Museo Nazionale di Spina skyphos T 441 Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco fragment of a bowl 11 B 10 •
Wedding_Painter
Greek silver hoard
Eros or Plutus; Hemispheric cup (diameter 13–14 cm, weight 151 g); Ovoid skyphos (diameter 13.3 cm, weight 300 g); Kyathos (diameter 5.5 cm, weight 119 g
Morgantina_treasure
Berlin, Antikensammlung Krater A 34 Athens, Kerameikos-Museum Krater 130; Skyphos-Krater 801 John D. Beazley: Attic Black-figure Vase-painters. Oxford 1956
Painter_of_Berlin_A_34
Archaeological site in Israel
The ceramic finds include a red slipware bowl, a fine-ware cup and a skyphos with barbotine decoration. Three similar bowls were found next to Tel Shush
Tel_Shush
American classical archaeologist
Skyphos donated by Platner Shear (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Josephine_Platner_Shear
Building in Strumica, North Macedonia
the pits consisting antique and grey Paeonian pottery (amphora, kylix, skyphos, kantharos, askos, aryballos, bowls, plates, etc.), coins, jewelry, remains
Strumica_Fortress
Ancient Greek vase painter
14.9.83 Fragment of a lekanis San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums 1925.364 Skyphos John Beazley: Attic Black-figure Vase-painters. Oxford 1956, p. 43-49.
Polos_Painter
Ancient Greek vase painter
half are larger vase shapes such as amphora, amphora B, neck amphora, skyphos, and more. These large vases were found mostly in Italy, which means that
Painter_of_Nicosia_Olpe
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Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, Celtic, English, Greek, Irish
Handmaiden; Smooth Brow; Female Version of Melvin; Friend; Bad Village; Chieftain; Slender; Delicate; A Flower Name
Girl/Female
Tamil
Painting, Artist, Beautiful drawing
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian
Lord Vishnu; Full Moon
Boy/Male
Arabic, Australian, Muslim
Ibn-umair RA was so Named He was a Companion whom the Prophet PBUH Name as One of the Fourteen Eminent Guardians; Mus'ab; A Sahabi who Take Apart in the Battle of Badr; Mus'ab a Sahabi who Take Apart in the Battle of Badr
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Sanskrit
Virtuous
Boy/Male
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Telugu
Lord Shiva
Girl/Female
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu
Noushad; Lotus; Fd; Godess of Vedas
Boy/Male
Bengali, Hindu, Indian
Blessing from Indra; King of Gods
Girl/Female
American, Australian
The Spice
Girl/Female
Australian, Greek
Well-born; Female Version of Eugene
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