Definition of Cylices

1. cylix [n] - See also: cylix

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cylices

cydippid
cydippids
cydonin
cyen
cyence
cyens
cyeses
cyesis
cyfluthrin
cygnet
cygnets
cygnine
cyhalothrin
cyheptamide
cyle
cylices (current term)
cylinder
cylinder-head-sector
cylinder block
cylinder function
cylinder functions
cylinder head
cylinder heads
cylinder lock
cylinder press
cylinder retinoscopy
cylindered
cylindering
cylinders
cylindraceous

Literary usage of Cylices

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Catalogue of the Greek Vases in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge by Ernest Arthur Gardner (1897)
"Red-figured cylices. 70. Cylix. Height (as restored), '085 m.; diameter (as restored), '19 m.; diameter of field, '09 m. Only the central part of the bowl, ..."

2. Transactions of the Department of Archaeology, Free Museum of Science and Art by University of Pennsylvania, University Museum (1905)
"The peculiar red ivy border on the interior seems to connect this vase with two famous cylices in Munich, which are similarly decorated. ..."

3. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"The oldest cylices at Athens have that shape with off-set lip, ... Already as introducer of one new fashion in cylices, he is perhaps best known by a group ..."

4. History of Ancient Pottery by Samuel Birch (1858)
"cylices, and amphorae he painted the subjects of Acamas and Demophon bringing ... is chiefly known from the cylices he made, and which are found at Vulci, ..."

5. Preliminary Catalogue of the Rebecca Darlington Stoddard Collection of Greek by Paul Victor Christopher Baur (1914)
"cylices without handles 411. Light brown clay. High foot. 412-414. Reddish clay. 415. Light brown clay. ... cylices with one handle 429. Light brown clay. ..."

6. American Journal of Archaeology by Archaeological Institute of America (1891)
"JE HARRISON, Tivo cylices relating to the exploits of Theseus (pis. I, n). As Milan! (JV/weo Italiano di antichita classica, in. 1, pp. 236 ff. ..."

7. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... and have the grandest picture- subjects painted on them. The cylices frequently have paintings of wonderful delicacy and beauty; the later Athenian ..."

8. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1906)
"... that again and again he calls attention to other forms of meander on other cylices attributed to the same hand; and that in a final summary (p. ..."

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