Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A shallow, stemmed, two-handled drinking cup of ancient Greece.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Greek antiquity, a vase or cup of elegant form, used for drinking. The kylix was usually broad and shallow, with or without a slender foot, and provided with two handles not extending above the rim. Also written
cylix .
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- noun An Ancient Greek drinking cup with a stem, two handles, and a broad, shallow body
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a shallow drinking cup with two handles; used in ancient Greece
Etymologies
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Examples
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Vernon Silver shines a spotlight over the shockingly cut-throat often illegal by even renowned museums competition for priceless ancient art by focusing on a kylix by famous ancient Greek artisan Euphronios.
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Archeologists also discovered a second bronze sword with a bone handle, a bronze and iron dagger, a pair of greaves armoured plates, an arrowhead, a spear point, a golden kylix or wine cup and a bronze boiler in the grave.
Archive 2008-10-01 Jan 2008
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Archeologists also discovered a second bronze sword with a bone handle, a bronze and iron dagger, a pair of greaves armoured plates, an arrowhead, a spear point, a golden kylix or wine cup and a bronze boiler in the grave.
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Rather the first sentence can only sensibly read "I am the kylix of Cupe Althrna".
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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Rather the first sentence can only sensibly read "I am the kylix of Cupe Althrna".
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While neither account named True's "reliable sources," or the dealer or dealers who sold the vase fragments to the Getty, the kylix does appear in court documents pertaining to Hecht's trial, as well as True's.
The Trial in Rome 2006
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At a conference in Viterbo, north of Rome, the following October, an Italian scholar presented evidence that a fragmentary red-figure kylix at the Getty had been taken illegally from Cerveteri.
The Trial in Rome 2006
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While the Met dismissed the evidence offered about the Morgantina treasure as inconclusive, True conducted a review of the Euphronios-Onesimos kylix and concluded that it should be returned to Italy.
The Trial in Rome 2006
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On November 29 -- without the fanfare graciously displayed at the MFA -- the Met received from Italy a kylix (drinking cup) from 560 to 550 B.C., which will be on loan to the museum until November 2010.
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At a conference in Viterbo, north of Rome, the following October, an Italian scholar presented evidence that a fragmentary red-figure kylix at the Getty had been taken illegally from Cerveteri.
The Trial in Rome 2006
bilby commented on the word kylix
"Other figures of virile and beautiful Greek youth appear on Greek pots and vases. A kylix in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge shows a young athlete stooping in his bath. The rapturous motto around the dish says, 'The boy, yes, the boy is beautiful.'"
- 'What turns women on', Germaine Greer in Esquire, 1973.
April 14, 2008
qms commented on the word kylix
Penelope’s dining is stylish:
A dainty and well-seasoned dry mix
In a Baccarat bowl
That’s food for the soul
And catnip infusion en kylix.
November 29, 2018