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eye-cup

ancient Greek pottery cup with pairs of eyes (thought to be apotropaic) painted on the external surface in silhouette style with a short squat foot, widespread in Athens and Chalkis in the latter half of 6th century BCE
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eye-cup

Summary

eye-cup ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (28 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • eye-cup's image is recorded as A Gorgoneion decoration on an Attic ceramic vessel from approximately 530-520 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich (8958430806).jpg[2].
  • eye-cup's depicts is recorded as eye[3].
  • eye-cup's subclass of is recorded as cup with stem[4].
  • eye-cup's subclass of is recorded as pottery of ancient Greece[5].
  • eye-cup's Commons category is recorded as Eye-cups[6].
  • eye-cup's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0h95k1z[7].
  • eye-cup's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300264995[8].
  • eye-cup's BabelNet ID is recorded as 02706728n[9].
  • eye-cup's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 4396[10].

Why It Matters

eye-cup ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (28 views/month).[1] eye-cup is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  8. [9] ↑ . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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