rhyton

American  

[rahy-ton] / ˈraɪ tɒn /

noun

plural

rhyta

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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Etymology

Origin of rhyton

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

Example Sentences

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

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 Smith, A. H.

The only similar piece of silver-work known is the bull's-head rhyton in the Hermitage Collection, St. Petersburg.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)

One holds up a rhyton terminating in a ram's head; the other stretches out his right hand to a long table which stands before the couch.

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