Note 3302 — Chapter XXI · ROMAN POTTERY: TECHNICAL PROCESSES, SHAPES, AND USES
Reading edition
Catull. 94, 2; Juv. xiv. 171. For examples of ollae, see Overbeck, Pompeii, p. 414, Daremberg and Saglio, s.v., and Pl. LXIX. fig. 2; see also pp. 389, 456, 550. Isidorus expressly states that it was used for boiling water (Etym. xx. 8).