Hermitage. Bilingual Kylix Black-figure And Red-figure With Traces Of Gluing. Athens, Ca. 525 BC Editorial Photo

Kilik - an ancient Greek vessel, a shallow round bowl with a wide mouth, on a leg, with two horizontal handles on the sides. Such vessels were made of ceramics, less often of silver, in the 6th-2nd centuries BC. e. In drinking meetings - symposiums - they drank wine diluted with water from kiliks. Outside and inside, ceramic kiliks were decorated with black-figure or red-figure painting on mythological or everyday subjects. State Hermitage Museum. Saint-Petersburg, Russia