Shape
Kylix
κύλιξ
27209 vases
The wide, shallow drinking cup of the symposium. The interior tondo — revealed as the drinker emptied the cup — was a prized space for painters. Some of the most intimate and inventive compositions appear inside kylikes.
Function & Use
Drinking wine at the symposium
27209 examples
Terracotta fragment of a stemless kylix (drinking cup)?
late 5th/early 4th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
late 5th/early 4th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
4th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a stemless kylix (drinking cup)?
late 5th/early 4th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
late 4th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
late 5th/early 4th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
late 5th/early 4th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)?
6th/5th centuries BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
late 4th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
late 5th/early 4th century BCE
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
late 5th/early 4th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
late 5th/early 4th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
late 5th/early 4th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
late 5th/early 4th century BCE
Terracotta rim fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)
late 5th/early 4th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
late 5th/early 4th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
late 5th/early 4th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
late 5th/early 4th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
late 4th century BCE
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
late 5th/early 4th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
late 5th/early 4th century BCE
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
late 5th/early 4th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
late 4th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
6th/5th centuries BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
6th/5th centuries BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)?
6th/5th centuries BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)?
4th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
late 5th/early 4th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)?
480–460 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
6th/5th centuries BCE
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
480–460 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
late 5th/early 4th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
6th/5th centuries BCE
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
490–480 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
late 5th/early 4th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
late 5th/early 4th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
late 5th/early 4th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
late 5th/early 4th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
late 5th/early 4th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
late 4th century BCE
Terracotta kyathos (single-handled cup)
ORI
7th century BCE
Black-Figure Kotyle (Drinking Cup): Animal Friezes
BF
Shoe Lane Painter
· 600s–500s BCE, with modern painting and incision
Miniature Bucchero Kotyle (Deep Cup)
7th Century BCE
Cup Fragment
7th–6th century B.C.
Terracotta cup
early 7th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix: Lip cup (drinking cup)
third quarter of the 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix: Lip cup (drinking cup)
third quarter of the 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
6th/5th centuries BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
6th/5th centuries BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup) or a skyphos (deep drinking cup)?
second half of the 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup) or a skyphos (deep drinking cup)?
6th/5th centuries BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix: Lip cup (drinking cup)
560–525 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup) or a skyphos (deep drinking cup)?
6th/5th centuries BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup) or a skyphos (deep drinking cup)?
late 6th/early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup) or a skyphos (deep drinking cup)?
late 6th/early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix: Lip cup (drinking cup)
560–525 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix: Lip cup (drinking cup)
560–525 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix: Lip cup (drinking cup)
560–525 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix: Lip cup (drinking cup)
560–525 BCE
Terracotta fragment of a kylix: Lip cup (drinking cup)
third quarter of the 6th century BCE
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