Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

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Patĭna

（λεκάνη, τρύβλιον, λοπάς), dimin. Patella. A deep dish used both for cooking and for serving food at table; sometimes covered. When used for cooking it was generally of earthenware, but for table-service it was often of silver, sometimes with delicate chasing, so that the actor Aesopus had one valued at 100,000 sesterces, or $4000 (Pliny , Pliny H. N. xxxv. 163). Vitellius had one of earthenware so large that the special oven built to contain it cost 1,000,000 sesterces, or $40,000 (Pliny , l. c.; Vitell. 13).