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Vaphio, Vafio or Vapheio is an ancient site in Laconia, Greece, on the right bank of the Eurotas, some 5 mi (8.0 km) south of Sparta. It is famous for...

having been pillaged both in antiquity and more recently. Although the Vapheio tholos, south of Sparta, had been robbed, two cists in the floor had escaped...

It has a stem, a Vapheio cup–shaped body, and two handles in the style of a kantharos. The cup is the only known example of the Vapheio shape to have a...

Age. Göteborg: Åström. ISBN 9789186098551. Davis, Ellen N. (1977). The Vapheio Cups and Aegean Gold and Silver Ware. New York: Garland Pub. ISBN 9780824026813...

148–157. doi:10.1002/evan.20267. S2CID 86035650. Davis, E.N. (1974). "The Vapheio Cups: One Minoan and One Mycenean?". The Art Bulletin. 56 (4): 472–487...

Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-8476-7808-2. Younger, John G. (1978). "The Mycenae-Vapheio Lion Group". American Journal of Archaeology. 82 (3). Archaeological Institute...

originals. Some of his first endeavours with this technique were copies of the Vapheio Cups, discovered by the archaeologist Christos Tsountas in 1888, which...

Åströms Förlag. p. 1. ISBN 978-91-7081-249-1. Davis, Ellen N. (1977). The Vapheio Cups and Aegean Gold and Silver Ware. New York: Garland Pub. ISBN 978-0-8240-2681-3...

Mainland Polychrome. Some of the preferred shapes during this period were the vapheio cup, semi globular cup, alabastron, and piriform jar. During this period...

treated as jewellery for women. The tholos or beehive tomb at Vaphio (or Vapheio) near Sparta is another famous find that has generated much discussion...

Greek region of Laconia. His excavations there included the tholos tomb at Vapheio; although the tomb had previously been cleared in 1805, Tsountas discovered...