kylix
Pl. kylikes, kylixes.
Variant of cylix.
| 1892 Times 7 Feb. 20/1 An Athenian kylix by Sotades. Ibid., These three beautiful kylixes have the ground a pale cream-colour. 1905 H. B. Walters Hist. Anc. Pott. I. 417 The kylikes of the Epictetan cycle. 1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 183/2 An Attic kylix signed by Pamphaios. 1935 Antiquity IX. 508 In the dromoi many kylix fragments were found. 1948 A. Lane Greek Pott. iv. 31 About the middle of the sixth century, the pedestal-cup (kylix) became common in East Greece. 1960 [see cyathus]. |