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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as scyphus, 1.

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Examples

  • In the same context, a (local?) imitation of an early blown zarte rippenschale was also recognised along with a blown skyphos.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Glass Studies Report 1 2003

  • A 1990 issue of IFARreports devoted to the Corinth theft included a photograph of a skyphos designated no. 784, apparently one of those that appeared on the New York art market.

    Corinth Antiquities Returned 2001

  • Sulla's shriek of horror ripped out of him as he leaped back and straightened; the skyphos emptied as it fell from his nerveless hand, and the wizened, stringy Grass Crown tumbled off his head to lie amid the blood.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • As donor of the heifer and celebrant of the public feast, Sulla bent to catch some of the blood in the skyphos, a special vessel belonging to Hercules.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • The cap-like sunshade painted on a skyphos, which a

    Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

  • Etruscan -- "... an Athenian skyphos found in an Etruscan tomb ..."

    Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms 1890

  • Athenian skyphos found in an Etruscan tomb at Chiusi, and at present in the museum there.

    Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms 1890

  • The Inner Nature of Color, these illustrating the coloration of the four elements (or processes). skyphos with gods, ca. 500 B. C.E (plate III).

    Netvouz - new bookmarks 2009

  • As for frequency, Coca-Cola, Wendy's, and AT & T are far more common in the language than glyceraldehyde, placage, and skyphos; yet the latter can be found in dictionaries usurping the space properly belonging to the former, which fulfill Landau's criteria of number, distribution in time and geography, and diversity of source.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 2 1984

  • Illustration on a skyphos (van Branteghem vase in the Ashmolean

    Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms 1890

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