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	Perseus Encyclopedia
		Both the Corinthian and the Attic skyphos enjoyed long popularity, from the early fl figure down to the Hellenistic period.
		: the skyphos belonging to Cyclops is three cubits wide by four cubits deep.
		Athenaios 11.498b and 499a: the skyphos was sometimes made of silver or gold.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0004:id=skyphos (236 words)

	Skyphos
		In classifying the pottery of Ancient Greece, a skyphos (plural skyphoi) is a two-handled deep wine-cup on a low flanged base or none.
		The handles may be horizontal ear-shaped thumbholds that project from the rim (in both Corinthian and Athenian shapes), or they may be loop handles at the rim or that stand away from the lower part of the body.
		A Roman skyphos of cameo glass is at the Getty Museum.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/LX/Skyphos.html (188 words)

	HERMITAGE MUSEUM ONLINE SHOP: BLACK-FIGURE SKYPHOS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A reproduction of a skyphos, a 6th-century BC Greek wine cup with two handles. Images of animals, fighting warriors, sirens, sphinxes and other fantastic creatures intended to ward off evil were usually painted on a band at handle level.
		Greek vases often show feasting men holding similar cups in their hands.
		This product is eligible for a Friends of the Hermitage discount.
	www.hermitagemuseum.org /shop/html_En/products/00305_Black_Figure_Skyphos.html (94 words)

	Cup with a Woman Drinking in a Storeroom (Getty Museum)
		At the left, a stand with lion's-paw feet supports a skyphos and various wine-serving utensils--a ladle, a sieve, and an oinochoe--hang from its hooks.
		The two sides of the skyphos present a scenario in which the woman has just left the storeroom and is getting drunk.
		This skyphos was meant to entertain a reveler at an all-male symposium or drinking party.
	www.getty.edu /art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=14121 (218 words)

	Queen's University, Dept. of Classics - Graduate Studies
		A Skyphos From The Diniacopoulos Collection At Queen's University: A Study Of An Attic Black-Figure Skyphos, Its Decoration And Its Place Amongst The Known Corpus Of Attic Black-Figure Pottery.
		This thesis studies an unpublished skyphos from the Diniacopoulos Collection which is currently on display in the Department of Classics, at Queen's University.
		The skyphos, a drinking cup, is painted in the Attic fl-figure style, which dates its construction to the period between the mid-sixth century BC and the mid-fifth century BC.
	www.queensu.ca /classics/grad/abstracts/abstracts2005.htm (763 words)

	skyphos (scyphus) a silver cup from the ancient Rome: an article for ASCAS: Association of Small Collectors of Antique ...
		The correct definition of Fredric Sinfield's cup is 'skyphos' (scyphus), and, moreover, is embossed with ivy wreaths as the cup found in 1835 in Pompeii.
		Few silver skyphos are known, while there's a great availability of ceramic skyphos.
		I do not know if the unidentified Roman silversmith of the 19th century took his inspiration from the skyphos discovered in Pompeii in 1835 (likely, in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale of Naples) or from another skyphos in a museum of Rome.
	www.ascasonline.org /ARTICOLOSKYPHOSING.html (1577 words)

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