Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Obba

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. 

OBBA (ἄμβιξ). A particular kind of drinking-cup (Pers. v. 148. Varro, ap. Non. s. v. p. 545.), made of earthenware, and sometimes of wood, or of the Spanish broom. (Non. l. c.) The Latin name is translated by the ἄμβιξ in the glossary of Philoxenus; and that word is explained by Athenaeus (xi. 8.) to be a drinking vessel with a sharp point. Dioscorides (v. 110.) applies it to the lid of a vessel used for making quicksilver, in a passage translated by Pliny (H. N. xxxiii. 41.), who employs the word calix for the same object. The figure annexed (Obba/1.1), from an original of baked clay, corresponds so completely with all these particulars, the pointed form of Athenaeus, the calix of Pliny, and, when inverted, the lid of Dioscorides, as to remove all doubt respecting the genuine and characteristic form of the obba.

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  Obba/1.1