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

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or Vatillum. An iron shovel with a short handle used for various purposes, especially

Batillum. (From an original in bronze found at Pompeii.)

as a fire-shovel, chafing-dish, and for burning incense. See Horace, Sat. i. 5.36.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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