Kantharos
A kantharos
The kantharos is a cup used to hold wine, possibly for drinking or for ritual use or offerings. The kantharos seems to be an attribute of Dionysos, the god of wine, who was associated with vegetation and fertility.[2]
As well as a banqueting cup, they could be used in pagan rituals as a symbol of rebirth or resurrection, the immortality offered by wine, "removing in moments of ecstasy the burden of self-consciousness and elevating man to the rank of deity".[3]
Gallery
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Bucchero kantharos (Latial culture, 830–730 BC)
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Black-glaze kantharos with Boeotian inscription (Thespiae, 450–425 BC)
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Side view of janiform kantharos with Heracles and woman (480–460 BC)
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Silver cantharus (Gaul, present-day Alise-Sainte-Reine, latter 1st century BC)
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Iliupersis Painter (South Italy, active 375–350 BC), Head-Kantharos of a Female Faun or Io (?), red-figure pottery
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Janiform kantharos, Etruscan pottery, second half of the 4th century BC
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Kantharos Janus. Kantharos plastic double head: satyr head (shown here) and female head, group Chiusi, 2nd half of the fourth century BC. BC, terracotta.
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kantharos, made in Athens, about 470 BC, British Museum
See also
- Kylix
- Rhyton
- Ancient Greek vase painting
- Pottery of ancient Greece
Notes
- ISBN 978-0-89236-599-9
- ^ George W. Elderkin, Kantharos: Studies in Dionysiac and Kindred Cult (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1924):4
- ^ Elderkin, Kantharos: Studies in Dionysiac and Kindred Cult, 2-6
References
- Gina Hander. "CU Classics: Greek Vase Exhibit: Kantharos". Colorado University.
- E. Mulder. "Boeotia, Land of the Kantharos" (PDF). University of Leiden.