Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Seria

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. 

SE'RIA. An earthenware vessel chiefly employed for holding wine and oil (Columell. xii. 18. 5. Varro, R. R. iii. 2. 8.), though also put to other uses, as a jar for potted meats (Columell. xii. 55. 4. Plaut. Capt. iv. 4. 9.), burying money (Pers. ii. 11.), &c. We have no passages which detail the exact form of the vessel in question, excepting that it had a full body, terminated by a narrow throat (faux, Columell. xii. 55. 4.), and that it was smaller than the dolium, but larger than the amphora (Id. xii. 28. 1.) The annexed figure (Seria/1.1) is copied from an original in earthenware, discovered, amongst many others of different shapes and sizes, in a wine cellar under the walls of Rome, of which a plan and description are given at p. 141. s. CELLA, 2.; and as it bears a distinct outline from the well-ascertained forms of the dolium and amphora, whilst possessing the properties above mentioned, it is here introduced as a probable example of the model known by the name of Seria; the more so as the locality where it was found fully testifies its quality and use.

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  Seria/1.1