Flat drinking vessel (kylix), replica of the original from the Archaeological Museum in Delphi, diameter 23.8 cm, height 8.4 cm. The name of the painter is not known, but the motif is nevertheless famous: Apollo (god of art and music, among other things) is offering a libation and is holding the lyre dedicated to him in his left hand, the resonating body of which is made of a turtle shell. There are interesting texts from Greek mythology about this. It was customary to pour some of the drink onto the ground as a sacrifice before drinking. Incidentally, in Hellenistic times the lyre was a symbol of poets and thinkers, from which the term lyric poetry later developed. [hint: this is an automatic translation from German]   |   Category: Kultgegenstände   |   Material: Keramik / Porzellan   |   Country of origin: Thessaly and Central Greece, Greece | Similar pieces