A.jar or vessel for water or wine, Anacr.17, Archil.4, Hdt.3.20, S.Fr.534.3 (anap.), Ar.Ach.549, etc.; “κ. ἀντλητικός” CPR 232.12 (ii A.D.); said to be Ion. for κεράμιον, Clitarch.Gloss. ap. Ath. 11.473b.
2. a liquid measure,= ἀμφορεύς, Philoch.155a; “ἐλαίου” LXX 2 Ch.2.10(9) (cod. A), cj. in Simon.155.4 (Hermes64.274); “πίνει τετραχόοισι κάδοις” Hedyl. ap. Ath.l.c.; later, half an ἀμφ., Script. Metrol.1.257, 2.144 Hultsch.