Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Obbatus

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'TUS. Made in the shape of an obba, as described under that word; applied to the skull caps worn by Castor and Pollux (Apul. Met. x. p. 234.), which are often represented on works of art ending in a sharp point at the top, like the example annexed (Obbatus/1.1), from a painting of Pompeii. Charon wears a cap of still closer resemblance in shape to the drinking-cup delineated in the preceding wood-cut on a fictile vase in Stackelberg's Gräb. d. Hell. Pl. 47.; so that there is no necessity for altering the reading in the passage of Apuleius, as some have done.

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  Obbatus/1.1