Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Rhyton

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（ῥυτόν) and Rhytium. A kind of drinking-horn. Originally it was probably made of an

Rhyton from Pompeii. (

Museo Borbonico.

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ox-horn (κέρας). Later, it had an opening at the bottom from which the person drank (Athen. xi. p. 497 e).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)