cantharuses

Anise-sprinkled loaves alternated with great cheeses heavier than discuses, crateras filled with wine, and cantharuses filled with water, together with baskets of gold filigree work containing flowers.

1886, “The Feast”, in J. S. Chartres, transl., Salambo: A Realistic Romance of Ancient Carthage, London: Vizetelly & Co., […], translation of Salammbô by Gustave Flaubert, page 3

The mention of cantharuses in the obscure line suggests that he made drinking cups.[…]and then I saw Hermaiscus smashing one of those immense cantharuses[…]but, my good fellow, they are not turning out at the pottery now those immense cantharuses, but nothing but low and hollow things

1932, Walter Miller, Daedalus and Thespis: The Contributions of the Ancient Dramatic Poets to Our Knowledge of the Arts and Crafts of Greece, pages 693, 732, and 733

The baptistery has a floor decorated with eucharistic scenes: peacocks, deer and birds facing cantharuses full of water.

1978, Naseljavanje i naselja u antici, page 137

[…]preserved black and white mosaic floor there is a painting of the myth of Lycurgus and Ambrosia in a medallion and, at the corners, four cantharuses with vine tendrils which separate scenes regarding the harvesting of grapes.

1993, Archaeological Routes, →ISBN, page 27

Throughout the excavations a large number of fragments of cantharuses and skyphoses (two-handled cup-shaped vessels for drinking wine or beer) were discovered.[…]Especially attractive elements include the composite “Theodosian” capitals, the white marble figured capitals which were decorated with numerous peacocks, heads of bulls, sheep and birds in flight, and pines, cantharuses and leaves and tendrils of evergreen ivy combined with acanthus leaves.

1995, Macedonia: Cultural Heritage, →ISBN, pages 56 and 68