Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Narthecium

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. 

NARTHE'CIUM (ναρθήκιον, νάρθηξ). A small case for keeping unguents and medicines (Cic. Fin. ii. 7. Mart. iv. 78.); made in a cylindrical form, like a joint of the fennel giant (νάρθηξ), which may itself have been used for the purpose, but doubtless suggested the name, and authorised the application of it to an object of corresponding form, though made of other materials; as the annexed example (Narthecium/1.1), from an original of ivory found at Pompeii.

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  Narthecium/1.1