History of ancient pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman (1905)
Walters, Henry Beauchamp, 1867-1944, Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885 · New York, Scribner · leaf 196
ing asdenoting not only a shape of a drinking-cup (see below, p. 184),but a Greek measure, equivalent to about half a pint. Again,in 1867, a cylindrical vase of red ware was found at Athensinscribed AHMOZION, BrjfioaLov, or public (measure).^ It wasstamped with the figure of an owl and an… … 136 USES AND SHAPES OF GREEK VASES or if pints, while the %oti/t^ 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 stuffs;and it is possible that herein lies the explanation of…
Pottery, Ancient · Mythology, Greek
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