Kyathos (Ancient Greek: κύαθος, kúathos) is the name given in modern terminology to a type of painted ancient Greek vase with a tall, round, slightly tapering bowl and a single, flat, long, looping handle. Its closest modern parallel would be a ladle.

As a short, wide vessel with a tall looped handle, a kyathos was used as a ladle for serving wine out of a krater. From the base, a ring of sharp, raised bosses broadens to create the bowl of the vessel, crowned by a wide lip that flares out at the rim.

Developed in the second half of the sixth century, most probably in the workshop of Nikosthenes, the kyathos (pl. kyathoi; compare the Greek verb, kuein - 'to contain') is a small dipper, with a single high handle and low foot.

Title: Silver kyathos (cup-shaped ladle) Period: Hellenistic. Date: late 4th century BCE. Culture: Greek, South Italian. Medium: Silver. Dimensions: H.: 8 in. (20.3 cm) Classification: Gold and Silver. Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1908. Object Number: 08.258.54

The kyathos is a dipper with a single long, upward-curving handle set on the side of the vessel, and having a low flat foot-disc. History: The average height is about 5 inches. The earliest known examples of this vessel suggest that the shape was invented by …

Title: Terracotta kyathos (cup-shaped ladle) Period: Archaic. Date: ca. 530–500 BCE. Culture: Greek, Attic. Medium: Terracotta; black-figure. Dimensions: 4 15/16in. (12.5cm) Classification: Vases. Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1925. Object Number: 25.78.69

A kyathos is a dipper used to ladle wine from large mixing vessels. The shape entered the Athenian pottery repertoire from Etruria, and Athenian artists decorated the foreign...

The kyathos was a distinctive type of ancient Greek vessel used primarily as a ladle or dipper. Its characteristic features included a deep, round bowl and a long, often slender handle, usually attached at a sharp angle to one side of the vessel.

On the right an Amazon in a kidaris, with quiver and bow-case at side and a panther-skin hanging over the left arm, steps to left, shooting at the assailant; one arrow is flying through the middle space, and a second is already fitted to the bent bow, as she takes aim.

kyathos (Greek: κύαθος ). In ancient Greek and Etruscan pottery, a dipper or ladle with a deep, cup-shaped container, a single, long handle, and a low foot.