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

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Olla

and (anciently) Aula (χύτρα). A jar or pot of earthenware (rarely of metal) with a flat

Olla. (British Museum.)

bottom, a wide mouth, with a lid, used by the ancients for a variety of purposes:

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1.

for cooking and preserving fruits; and

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2.

for preserving the bones (olla ossuaria) and ashes (olla cineraria) of the dead (see Cineraria; Columbarium; Funus; Ollarium); and

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3.

for exposing infants —this last in Greece (Ran. 1188, with scholia).