Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Situla

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. 

SIT'ULA. A bucket for drawing water out of a well (Isidor. Orig. xx. 15. Plaut. Amph. ii. 2. 47. Paul. Dig. 18. 1. 40.); made with a pointed bottom, to facilitate immersion, as shown by the annexed example (Situla/1.1) from an original of bronze. The same outline is constantly observed in the ancient representations of wells with a windlass and bucket; in a fragment of fresco-painting preserved in the British Museum, and in the wood-cut s. GIRGILLUS.

2. A vessel used for drawing lots. (Plaut. Cas. ii. 6. 6. Cic. Verr. ii. 2. 51.) Same as SITELLA.

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  Situla/1.1