Greece: Satyrs on a drinking cup (kylix), detail, Attica, Late Archaic Period, wider circle of the Nikosthenes Painter, c. 500 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

In the pottery of ancient Greece, a kylix is the most common type of wine-drinking cup. It has a broad, relatively shallow, body raised on a stem from a foot and usually two horizontal handles disposed symmetrically. The main alternative wine-cup shape was the kantharos, with a narrower and deeper cup and high vertical handles.

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