Kantharos

Definition: Kantharos if the Greek name for a type of pottery drinking cup with handles that loom above the lip. In the accompanying photo of an amphora decorated by the Berlin Painter, the wine god Dionysus holds a kantharos of wine. His kantharos was never supposed to be empty.

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