Kyathos

second half of the 7th century BCE (Orientalizing)

15.3 cm 15.4 cm

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As a short, wide vessel with a tall looped handle, a kyathos was used as a ladle for serving wine out of a krater. From the base, a ring of sharp, raised bosses broadens to create the bowl of the vessel, crowned by a wide lip that flares out at the rim. The lip is decorated wi...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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