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What is a rhyton?

What is a rhyton? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A container from which fluids are intended to be drunk, having one handle and usually a base in the form of a head.
  2. A Thracian drinking horn.
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Her silver gilt rhyton has a double bottom.
The wine was consumed in a variety of vessels including the kylix, skyphos, kantharos and rhyton.
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.
In the second specimen there is no large disk, and the figure is holding up what is apparently a rhyton or drinking-horn.
A conical rhyton from the cemetery at Kameiros on Rhodes is even less easily understood.
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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