rhyton

American  

[rahy-ton] / ˈraɪ tɒn /

noun

• rhyta
  plural

1. an ancient Greek drinking horn, made of pottery or metal, having a base in the form of the head of a woman or animal.

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rhyton British  

/ ˈraɪtɒn /

noun

1. (in ancient Greece) a horn-shaped drinking vessel with a hole in the pointed end through which to drink

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• rhyta
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of rhyton

1840–50; < Greek rhytón, noun use of neuter of rhytós flowing, akin to rheîn to flow

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Example Sentences

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rhyton

A ceremonial libations vessel, or rhyton, that depicts a stag’s head, purchased from the Merrin Gallery of Manhattan for $2.6 million in November 1991.

From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2021

Before them kneels another figure with the face, pointed animal ears and hair of a Greco-Roman satyr, yet he drinks from a Greco-Persian vessel called a rhyton, made of a beast's head and neck.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here is seen the amphora of wine, the tambourine, the rhyton, the Greek drinking horn, and the raised Greek cup - all suggesting the time of festivity after the harvests.

From Palaces and Courts of the Exposition by Juliet Helena Lumbard James

In the second specimen there is no large disk, and the figure is holding up what is apparently a rhyton or drinking-horn.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" by Various

He has a cup in the left hand and a rhyton in the right hand.

From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by A. H. Smith

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