rhyton

Chemical traces in a rhyton suggest barley, beer, and wine.

It is not clear when, or even if, the ceremonial vessel, which is known as a rhyton, will go back to Iran.

The khagan filled his rhyton the ordinary way.

It has been suggested that the shape of a natural horn was also the model for the rhyton, a horn-shaped drinking vessel.

The Bull's Head Rhyton, however, was a specific type of which many instances have been found.

Wulghash, still fuming, drained his ivory rhyton at a gulp.

There is a bull's head rhyton from Mycenae with a gold rosette or sun-burst on its forehead.

There are 19 silver vessels and 16 gold vessels, including a striking rhyton and remains of another.

A unique rhyton cup with a figure of deer with branchy antlers on it is the most interesting find.

At its most abstract, the rhyton is the container of the substance of life, celebrated by the ritual dancing on the grapes.

A delicate rock crystal rhyton on display here shows the sophistication of both workmanship and personal taste in the New-Palace period.

There was a rhyton in the form of a human head, a black-figure kylix on one side, a small red-figure amphora on the other.

The more important sacred precincts were probably bounded by more substantial walls: the Gypsades Rhyton seems to show one of these.

Its main room yielded a clay ox head, a LMIB style jug and a stone rhyton.

Among its most valuable objects are a painted dish of Nikosthenes, a glass bottle from the port of Puteolo, and a gilded silver rhyton.

However, the artwork of Nisa, including marble statues and the carved scenes on ivory rhyton vessels, is unquestionably influenced by Greek art.

The conical rhyton form was known in the Aegean region since the Bronze Age; i.e., the 2nd millennium BC.

One arm raises a drinking horn (rhyton) aloft as if to offer a toast or libation; the other bears a shallow libation dish (patera).

Drinking vessels made from glass, ceramics or metal styled in the shape of drinking horns are also known from antiquity, in Greek known as rhyton.

At Ruvo di Puglia we'll see the Jatta Museum, a collection of Greek red figure vases and rhyton drinking cups (excellent).

The rhyton was likely used for the transportation of libation for use in sacred ritual and is so named for its relief depicting an attack on a fortified town.

(Example) Some of the rhyta are ornate libation vessels, such as the noted "Bull's-head Rhyton" found at Knossos.

Some art objects obtained from the graves are the Silver Siege Rhyton, the Mask of Agamemnon, the Cup of Nestor, and weapons both votive and practical.

A rhyton (plural rhytons or, following the Greek plural, rhyta) is a container from which fluids were intended to be drunk, or else poured in some ceremony such as libation.

The connection to which he refers is a pun not present in English translation: the wine is mixed (kerannymenos), which appears to contain the bull's horn (keras), the then name of the rhyton.