Note 47 — Chapter VIII

The two instruments were slung together. The guttus was round, and from its round flat orifice, the oil distilled. Guttatim tenticulari forma, terite ambitu, pressula rotunditate.—Apuleius. On coins, vases, and bas-reliefs, it has been mistaken for the pomegranate, for a bulbous root, or a lustral vase. A curious Greek papyrus, in which a reward is offered for a runaway slave, or Lechythophoros, has cleared this matter from all ambiguity. Mr. Letronne has restored and translated the papyrus. It is also to be seen in the Lycian tomb, of which a cast is in the British Museum, and one of the groups given in colours in Fellows’s “Lycia.”