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n. - A shallow drinking cup with two handles.

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  • Rather the first sentence can only sensibly read "I am the kylix of Cupe Althrna".
  • Finds from the tombs of the Valley of Thracian Kings include decorative equestrian ornaments and a delicate gold kylix, or drinking cup.
  • Fletcher Norton went the four Greek vases — a kylix, a water-jar, and two amphorae — which he had sold to Cowperwood and which he valued highly.
  • And a fifth-century B.C. Greek red-figure kylix (drinking cup), acquired in 1983 and signed by Onesimos as painter and Euphronios as potter, was looted from the Etruscan...
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