History of ancient pottery, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman (1905)
Walters, Henry Beauchamp, 1867-1944, Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885, Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885. History of ancient pottery · London, J. Murray · leaf 194
g asdenoting not only a shape of a drinking-cup (see below, p. 1S4),but a Greek measure, equivalent to about half a pint. Again,in 1867, a cylindrical vase of red ware was found at Athensinscribed AHMOIION, hr^jjLootov, or public (measure). It wasstamped with the figure of an owl and an… … riG. 14. HEMIKUTVLION (VAbE USED AS MEASURE).BRITISH MUSEUM. 136 USES AND SHAPES OF GREEK VASES or if pints/while the %om^ is generally reckoned as equivalentto I litre.^ Many of the names in common use for shapes of vases are alsofound applied to measures of capacity either for liquid or dry…
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