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Kottabos Symposium Toss

Also known as Kottabos (κότταβος)

Kottabos Symposium Toss: photograph by Bryn Mawr Painter, photo via Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Bryn Mawr Painter, photo via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, source on Wikimedia Commons

Reclining with a cup hooked on one finger, flick the last drops with a wrist snap to knock a balanced disc off a bronze stand or sink floating bowls.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Greece.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Classical Worlds (about 1000 BCE to 500 CE), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of Mediterranean.

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