Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Diatreta

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

DIATRE'TA (διάτρητα). Vases or drinking cups of cut glass, or precious stones, ground by the wheel in such a manner that the patterns upon them not only stood out in relief, but were bored completely through, so as to form a piece of open tracery, like network (Mart. Ep. xii. 70. Ulp. Dig. 9. 2. 27.), precisely as exemplified by the annexed figure (Diatreta/1.1), copied from an original glass drinking-cup found at Novara in the year 1725. The letters on the top, which form the inscription BIBE, VIVAS MULTOS ANNOS, and the whole of the tracery below, are cut out of the solid, and form part of the same substance as the inner cup, though completely au jour, small ties or pins being left at proper intervals, which unite the letters and tracery to the inner body of the cup.

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  Diatreta/1.1