A.earthen jar or bottle for racking off wine (cf. κατασταμνίζω), Ar.Pl. 545, Fr.531, Hermipp. l.c., D.35.32: generally, jar, Hp.Epid.7.89; “ς. μέλιτος” LXX 3 Ki.12.24h; ς. χρυσῆ ἔχουσα τὸ μάννα Ep.Hebr. l.c.; used to keep money in, IG11(2).287 A 76 (Delos, iii B.C.), PTeb. 46.35 (ii B.C.); as a ballot-box, Jahresh.23 Beibl.75 (Pygela, iv/iii B.C.); as a measure, “τοῦ ἐλαίου” SIG900.27 (Panamara, iv A.D.): ἀμφορέα: τὸν δίωτον στάμνον, Ἀττικῶς, στάμνον, Ἑλληνικῶς, Moer. p.44 P.
στάμν-ος , ὁ, also ἡ Hermipp.82.7, Eratosth. ap. Ath.11.499e, Ep.Hebr.9.4:—
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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