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Definition of Kylix
1. Noun. A shallow drinking cup with two handles; used in ancient Greece.
Definition of Kylix
1. Noun. An Ancient Greek drinking cup with a stem, two handles, and a broad, shallow body ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Kylix
1. a drinking vessel [n -LIKES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kylix
Literary usage of Kylix
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Handbook of Attic Red-figured Vases Signed by Or Attributed to the Various by Joseph Clark Hoppin (1919)
"kylix (fragmentary). Zapiski RUSS. ... Interior up to medallion, and exterior
covered with brilliant orange slip like the Euphronios Geryon kylix. /. ..."
2. Charis: Essays in Honor of Sara A. Immerwahr by Sara Anderson Immerwahr, Anne Proctor Chapin (2004)
"... kylix is one of those chronologically diagnostic artifacts for which all
archaeologists long, since it is both easily recognizable in sherd material and ..."
3. Archaic Corinthian Pottery and the Anaploga Well by Darrell Arlynn Amyx, Patricia Lawrence (1975)
"Small burnt fragment, evidently from a kylix. PW 0.023, PH 0.026. Clay gray,
glaze discolored, ... Apparently from a kylix, but the bowl seems very flat. ..."
4. History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman by Henry Beauchamp Walters, Samuel Birch (1905)
"An extremely delicate form of kylix is used by the potter ... In Southern Italy
the kylix-form is only represented by gigantic shallow ..."
5. Pots and Pans of Classical Athens by Brian A. Sparkes, Lucy Talcott (1959)
"kylix. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University. ARV a3, 11. 51o-5ou BC 13. ... kylix.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 95.a9. ARV aan,6. Ca. 48o BC a8. HYDRIA. ..."
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