kotyle

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1. historicalSynonym of cantharus (“a kind of ancient Greek and Roman cup”).

   There were many kotylai found in the Limenia sanctuary which were decorated with bird-files (Perachora ii pl. 25); […]

   1895, The Annual of the British School at Athens, number 67, page 172

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   During the early history of Metapontion Ionic cups, kotylai and other East Greek shapes (D’Andria [1980] 118; for the production of Ionic cups in Magna Graecia: Guzzo [1978] 123-128), but also shapes based upon local indigenous vase types, came out of the workshops.

   2000, Tobias Fischer-Hansen, “Ergasteria in the Western Greek World”, in Pernille Flensted-Jensen, Thomas Heine Nielsen, Mogens Herman Hansen, Lene Rubinstein, editors, Polis & Politics: Studies in Ancient Greek History, Museum Tusculanum Press, →ISBN, part one (The Polis), section 1 (Physical Aspects of the Polis), page 101

   The black- and red-figure vases that were found are mainly small in size (lekythoi, kylikes, aryballoi, alabastra, kotylae, skyphoi, exaleiptra, and kantharoi), although there are also larger pots (oinochoae, pelikae, hydriae, kraters, and amphoras).

   2011, G. Karamitrou-Mentessidi, “Aiani—Historical and Geographical Context”, in Robin J[ames] Lane Fox, editor, Brill’s Companion to Ancient Macedon: Studies in the Archaeology and History of Macedon, 650 bc–300 ad, Brill, →ISBN, page 106

   At least four Attic black-glazed ovoid kotylai were found in the Drain. […] Attic black-glazed imitations of the Corinthian kotyle had been imported from the first half of the 6th century.

   2012, Ian McPhee, Elizabeth G. Pemberton, Late Classical Pottery from Ancient Corinth: Drain 1971-1 in the Forum Southwest (Corinth; VII.6), American School of Classical Studies at Athens, →ISBN, page 171

   Milesians, for example, purchased several thousand bird kotylae and bird bowls in ‘standard fabric’ from Teos during the first half and middle of the seventh century (Graeve 1973-4: 86-7), even though Miletos had her own prolific production of high-quality drinking vessels in the characteristic south-Ionian ‘cup with everted rim’ (the so-called ‘Ionian cup’) (e.g. Kalaitzoglou 2008: 67-92, pls 5-16; Schlotzhauer 2000; 2012: 45-8, pls 9-13).

   2017, Michael Kerschner, “East Greek pottery workshops in the seventh century BC: tracing regional styles”, in Xenia Charalambidou, Catherine Morgan, editors, Interpreting the Seventh Century BC: Tradition and Innovation, Archaeopress, →ISBN, page 108

   Greek imports present in the Levant during the Geometric period include open drinking vessels, especially the PSC skyphos but also kotylae and kraters, sourced from Euboea, Attica, and the Cyclades.

   2017, Sarah C. Murray, The Collapse of the Mycenaean Economy: Imports, Trade, and Institutions 1300–700 BCE, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 203

   Synonyms: cantharus