Rather the first sentence can only sensibly read "I am the kylix of Cupe Althrna". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
Finds from the tombs of the Valley of Thracian Kings include decorative equestrian ornaments and a delicate gold kylix, or drinking cup. From Wordnik.com. [Thracian Gold Fever] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier] Reference
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 site of Cerveteri. From Wordnik.com. [Getty Returns Italian Artifacts] Reference
At a conference in Viterbo, north of Rome, the following October, an Italian scholar presented evidence that a fragmentary red-figure kylix at the Getty had been taken illegally from Cerveteri. From Wordnik.com. [The Trial in Rome] Reference
While the Met dismissed the evidence offered about the Morgantina treasure as inconclusive, True conducted a review of the Euphronios-Onesimos kylix and concluded that it should be returned to Italy. From Wordnik.com. [The Trial in Rome] Reference
On November 29 -- without the fanfare graciously displayed at the MFA -- the Met received from Italy a kylix (drinking cup) from 560 to 550 B.C., which will be on loan to the museum until November 2010. From Wordnik.com. [Italy versus the Illicit Trade] Reference
Vernon Silver shines a spotlight over the shockingly cut-throat often illegal by even renowned museums competition for priceless ancient art by focusing on a kylix by famous ancient Greek artisan Euphronios. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Chalice: The Epic Hunt for a Priceless Masterpiece-Vernon Silver « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews] Reference
While neither account named True's "reliable sources," or the dealer or dealers who sold the vase fragments to the Getty, the kylix does appear in court documents pertaining to Hecht's trial, as well as True's. From Wordnik.com. [The Trial in Rome] Reference
Three pieces of Attic pottery -- a black-figure kylix, a red-figure kylix, and a red-figure hydria -- were sold at a 1990 auction of antiquities in the collections of the Texas oil barons Nelson and William Hunt. From Wordnik.com. [Geneva Seizure] Reference
Archeologists also discovered a second bronze sword with a bone handle, a bronze and iron dagger, a pair of greaves armoured plates, an arrowhead, a spear point, a golden kylix or wine cup and a bronze boiler in the grave. From Wordnik.com. [Mycenaean warrior used 'imported sword'] Reference
There's a wonderful lesson in scale to be learned from Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past, an exhibition at the Onassis Cultural Center, and it can be found at the bottom of a cup (or kylix, to use its proper name) dating from around 460 B.C. From Wordnik.com. [Childhood in Ancient Greece-Rare and Beautiful Glimpses] Reference
I beg you, stop! â âImpalement would be too good for you, traitor of Ar! â said the officer. âNo! â wailed the merchant. âIf your story is true, â said the officer, thrusting over a rack of ceramics, and a cabinet, âwhy were these goods, not destroyed, as well? â He hurled a kylix to the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Magicians of Gor]
The bowl of Hygeia, or kylix, is a modern emblem for pharmacy. From Wordnik.com. [American Chronicle] Reference
The kylix shows the deeds of Theseus for which he is best known. From Wordnik.com. [About.com Ancient / Classical History] Reference
To 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. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier, a novel] Reference
Archeologists also discovered a second bronze sword with a bone handle, a bronze and iron dagger, a pair of greaves (armoured plates), an arrowhead, a spear point, a golden kylix or wine cup and a bronze boiler in the grave. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Also gr. lekythos becomes lechtumuza, kylix culichna, latin Neptunus becomes Nethuns. From Wordnik.com. [A Pre-Greek name for Odysseus] Reference
"also gr. lekythos becomes lechtumuza, kylix culichna, latin Neptunus becomes Nethuns.". From Wordnik.com. [A Pre-Greek name for Odysseus] Reference
For many, archaeology is simply “product:” Tut’s death mask; the standard of Ur; a kylix from a Late Bronze Age shipwreck. From Wordnik.com. [Odyssey’s Never Ending Quest for Treasure] Reference
He hurled a kylix to the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Magicians of Gor]
A kylix from the B.rlin Museum of about 490 B. C. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
"A Greek kylix!" he cried. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
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