AMPULLA
A Smaller Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities · 1884 · p. 1
( λήκυθος , βομβύλιος ), a bottle, usually made among the Romans either of gla or earthenware, rarely of more valuable materials. Ampullae were more or le globular. From their round and swollen shape, the word was used by Horace to indicate grand and turgid but empty language. (“ Projicit am pull as et sesquipedal i a verb a ,” Ar. Poet. 97.) Ampullae are frequently mentioned in connection with the bath, since every Roman took with him to the bath a bottle of oil for anointing the body after bathing. The dealer in bottles was called ampullar i us . IMG:6459379820872971714_ill024a.jpg: Ampulla. (From a tomb at Myra in Lycia.)
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