A rhyton is a drinking vessel typically taking a horned animal shape in a metonymous gesture to its function as an elaborate drinking horn. |
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A conical rhyton from the cemetery at Kameiros on Rhodes is even less easily understood. |
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Through the openwork it mysteriously illuminates the corundum and pomegranates, decorating the walls of the rhyton. |
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Her silver gilt rhyton has a double bottom. |
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Unlike its ancient prototype, it can safely stand on the flat outer bottom, the second bottom of the rhyton is placed on its middle part of the tracery. |
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Team leader professor Georgi Kitov said that they also found a silver rhyton, silver and bronze vessels, pottery and funerary gifts. |
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The wine was consumed in a variety of vessels including the kylix, skyphos, kantharos and rhyton. |
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The northern necropolis of Meroe yielded a wine vessel in the form of an Amazon figure riding a rearing horse and holding a pouring vessel of the type called rhyton. |
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The award received by the winner, Isa Bal, was a replica of the gold phiale from Bulgaria's Golden Treasure of Panagyurishte and a rhyton from Belvedere. |
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The rhyton is in the shape of a griffin with three drinking cups attached. |
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