Definition of Skyphoi

1. skyphos [n] - See also: skyphos

Lexicographical Neighbors of Skyphoi

skylighted
skylights
skylike
skyline
skylines
skylit
skyllocytosis
skyman
skymap
skymapping
skymaps
skymen
skype
skyped
skypes
skyphoi (current term)
skyphos
skyping
skyr
skyre
skyred
skyres
skyring
skyrmion
skyrmions
skyrocket
skyrocketed
skyrocketing
skyrockets
skyrs

Literary usage of Skyphoi

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Red-figure Pottery by Sharon Herbert (1977)
"I. skyphoi 151-170 The birds on this lid are an unusual decoration on ... Fragments of 17 red-figure skyphoi found at Corinth and two from Athens have been ..."

2. Dynamic Symmetry: The Greek Vase by Jay Hambidge (1920)
"Again, the skyphoi shapes curiously parallel the Nolan amphorae forms, ... The sides of the skyphoi rectangles rest horizontal, the sides of the amphorae ..."

3. Late Geometric and Protoattic Pottery, Mid 8th to Late 7th Century B.C. by Eva T. H. Brann (1962)
"... plentiful because of the closing at this time of so many wells, all of which were filled with rubbish containing many skyphoi (see Brann, IR, pi. 7j. ..."

4. Hellenistic Pottery: Athenian and Imported Wheelmade Table Ware and Related by Susan I. Rotroff (1997)
"ATTIC The votive Attic skyphoi parallel larger cups closely, but their development is perhaps accelerated over that of skyphoi of normal size. ..."

5. Corinth: The Centenary, 1896-1996 by Charles K. Williams, Nancy Bookidis (2003)
"Sherds of two skyphoi, C-50-194 and C-50- 195, from well 1950-3. ... The parts of the skyphoi that would have had the framing sidebars, if they existed, ..."

6. Corinthian Hellenistic Pottery by G. Roger Edwards (1975)
"The latest skyphoi, whose regrettable forms lend high conviction to the thought ... In two grave groups, Deposits 59 and 63, skyphoi somewhat more advanced ..."

7. Debris from a Public Dining Place in the Athenian Agora by Susan I. Rotroff, John Howard Oakley (1992)
"Black-glazed skyphoi and Stemless Cups 10. Black-glazed Stemless Cups and ... Black-glazed Stemmed Dishes and Cups PLATES 1. Black-figured skyphoi 2. ..."

8. Ceramicus Redivivus: The Early Iron Age Potters' Field in the Area of the by John K. Papadopoulos (2003)
"Interior and exterior painted solid as 132. skyphoi The following skyphoi represent only a sample of the more numerous examples of the shape encountered in ..."

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