The Roordahuizum drinking horn, made in the mid-16th century by silversmith Albert Jacobs Canter, kept in the Frisian Museum at Leeuwarden[1]Drinking Horn with Silver-gilt Mounts (detail), Northern German or Scandinavian, Late 15th century, The Hunt MuseumA drinking horn in the coat of arms of Hämeenkyrö
A drinking horn is the horn of a bovid used as a drinking vessel. Drinking horns are known from Classical Antiquity, especially the Balkans, and remained in use for ceremonial purposes throughout the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period in some parts of Europe, notably in Germanic Europe, and in the Caucasus. Drinking horns remain an important accessory in the culture of ritual toasting in Georgia in particular, where they are known by the local name of kantsi.[2]
Drinking vessels made from glass, wood, ceramics or metal styled in the shape of drinking horns are also known from antiquity.
The ancient Greek term for a drinking horn was simply keras (plural kerata, "horn").[3] To be distinguished from the drinking-horn proper is the rhyton (plural rhyta), a drinking-vessel made in the shape of a horn with an outlet at the pointed end.
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A drinkinghorn is the horn of a bovid used as a drinking vessel. Drinkinghorns are known from Classical Antiquity, especially the Balkans, and remained...
19th-century drinkinghorn. Originally from the Kuba Kingdom, the drinkinghorn is made out of wood, iron, and copper alloy. Drinkinghorns were usually...
images. It is uncertain whether the horns were intended as drinkinghorns, or as blowing horns, although drinkinghorns have more pronounced history as luxury...
that region. Similar in form to, and perhaps originating from, the drinkinghorn, it has been widespread over Eurasia since prehistoric times. Liddell...
the valkyries Hrist ("shaker") and Mist ("cloud") would "bear him a [drinking] horn", then provides a list of 11 more valkyries who he says "bear ale to...
religions of the ancient Near East. Its horns were used in votive offerings, as trophies and drinkinghorns. Two aurochs domestication events occurred...
Latin cornu (horn) and copia (abundance), also called the horn of plenty, was a symbol of abundance and nourishment, commonly a large horn-shaped container...
by humans so that they can be blown like a horn, see Conch (musical instrument). Drinkinghorn "Blowing horns". Ancient Music. Retrieved 2008-01-29. "Calling...
culture a particular drinking from a cup or drinkinghorn on ceremonial occasions, often involving the swearing of oaths when the cup or horn was drunk by a...
her belt, referencing the clauweniers (arquebusiers) and a type of drinkinghorn used at group banquets. The painting was commissioned around 1639 by...
The Oldenburg Horn (Danish: Det Oldenborgske Horn) is a mid 15th-century drinkinghorn with House of Oldenburg associations, made of gilded silver richly...
relating to the theft of a "fairy cup", sometimes in the form of a drinkinghorn, usually from a "fairy mound" (i.e. from a tumulus). The legends are...
having a seat in Halikko parish. His seal featured the figure of a drinkinghorn. Like other Swedish noble families of medieval origin, the family name...
his campaign in Poland should be preserved for posterity. A drinkinghorn made from a horn of the last aurochs bull and taken by the Swedish army as war...
with stagecoach drivers, though was mainly used for drinking feats and special toasts. Drinking a yard glass full of beer as quickly as possible is a...
treasures (tlws) include vessels or utensils for food and drink (hamper, cauldron, crock and dish, horn and knife), objects relating to weaponry (sword, whetstone)...
Cirencester was awarded to Caradoc for winning the drinkinghorn through the fidelity of his wife, and that the horn was on display there. In 1698, Charlotte-Rose...
man’s wife to abuse your trust if you have a tryst. Carve them on the drinking-horn and on the back of your hand, and carve the rune ᚾ on your fingernail...
The lion head horn, is one of several kinds of drinkinghorns that have been used throughout Eurasia since prehistoric times. Horns with animal heads...
picture is Sigurd/Siegfried slaying Fafnir, and to the right is Sigrdrífa/Brunhild offering him a drinkinghorn. On the early 11th c. Drävle runestone....
legs of the body were laid out various drinking vessels, including a pair of drinkinghorns made from the horns of an aurochs, extinct since early medieval...
Nagarjunakonda Palace site. He has a light beard, is semi-nude and carries a drinkinghorn, and there is a barrel of wine next to him. Scythian influence Scythian...
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