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page 1Drinking horns
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rhyton
thumb|Silver rhyton with goat protome and death of Orpheus, –410 BC, housed in the [[Vassil Bojkov Collection, Sofia, Bulgaria.
The horn in a continuous and graceful curve makes a right-angled bend. Its lower two thirds are covered by flutes with arc-shaped upper tips. A figural scene below the flaring rim represents the murder of Orpheus. The musician is the central figure, fallen to his right knee, flanked by three attacking Thracian women. He holds a six-string lyre on his right hand and with his left one, wrapped in his mantle, a knobbed wooden stick, with which he tries vainly to protect
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