Rhyton conical, hand-painted, from Santorin, 27,2 cm high, 12,8 cm wide, 0,8 kg weight
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Conical rhyton
with circumferential spirals as decoration, 16th century B.C., place of discovery Akrotiri, Thera, today's Santorini.
Exhibit of the Archaeological National Museum Athens, inventory no. 1493.
The hand-painted replica is reproduced in its original size. The base is made of artificial marble.
A seal on the handle bears the inscription "MUSEUM COPY", back "HAND MADE IN GREECE".
A rhyton (Greek "drinking horn"), a sacrificial vessel, also a drinking vessel,
mostly made of metal or fired clay, often funnel-shaped, often formed in the shape of an animal or human head, with neck and handle, served sacral and profane purposes.
Lobations (Greek: sponde, hence "donation", Latin: libatio) were usually offered together with other, mostly bloody sacrifices and also in the cult of the dead. The liquids offered were mostly wine, water, milk and oil. The libation was poured out at the beginning and end of the sacrificial act and on the burning sacrificial animals.
Also in the profane area, a drink offering was poured out from each drink at the beginning, at the meal after the meal.
The opposite of the libation is probably the kottabos. The symposium (Greek: "binge"), drink, drinking feast, was usually held after a meal enjoyed together. Often the Kottabos, a cheerful Greek parlour game in which the rest of the wine had to be thrown out of the drinking vessel so skilfully against a disc lying loosely on a stand that it fell down noisily, was integrated. Or a small bowl floating in a water basin had to be hit and thus sunk.
This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday, September 5, 2018.