# Merrythought cup

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The term **Merrythought cup** is used by scholars to describe a specific type of [Attic](/source/Attica) *[kylix](/source/Kylix_(drinking_cup))*.

Attic Merrythought Cup, [Antikensammlung Berlin](/source/Antikensammlung_Berlin).

The Merrythought cup, named after the British word for "wishbone,"[1] probably developed as a refined form of a rural cup type normally made of wood. The shape features several peculiarities. It is the first Attic cup shape that lacks a distinctive break between lip and vessel body. The shape of the handles, which give the vessel its name, are in the oblong wishbone shape, with a knob shape on the curve of the handle.[1] Rather than forming a semi-circle, as is the case in virtual all other cup shapes. Equally unusual, the handles extend beyond the height of the vessel body. The cups, mostly covered in black [slip](/source/Slip_(ceramics)), occasionally feature thin stripes of red paint on the foot or the interior. This resembles [East Greek](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=East_Greece&action=edit&redlink=1) and other Attic decorative styles. The vase body is nearly hemispherical. The first Attic artist to decorate Merrythought cups in the [black-figure style](/source/Black-figure_vase_painting) was the [C Painter](/source/C_Painter).

## Bibliography

Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Merrythought cups](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Merrythought_cups).

- [John Boardman](/source/John_Boardman_(art_historian)): *Schwarzfigurige Vasen aus Athen. Ein Handbuch*, von Zabern, Mainz 1977 ([Kulturgeschichte der Antiken Welt](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kulturgeschichte_der_Antiken_Welt&action=edit&redlink=1), Vol 1) [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [3-8053-0233-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-8053-0233-9), p. 36.

- Ramage, Nancy Hirschland. “A Merrythought Cup from Sardis.” *American Journal of Archaeology*, vol. 87, no. 4, Archaeological Institute of America, 1983, pp. 453–60, [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.2307/504103](https://doi.org/10.2307%2F504103).

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## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:0_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:0_1-1) Ramage, Nancy Hirschland (October 1983). ["A Merrythought Cup from Sardis"](https://www.jstor.org/stable/504103). *American Journal of Archaeology*. **87** (4): 453–460. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.2307/504103](https://doi.org/10.2307%2F504103). [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [504103](https://www.jstor.org/stable/504103). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [191406274](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:191406274).

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