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

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Ampulla

（λήκυθος, βομβύλιος). A tall, slender, narrownecked vessel, with a handle, used for perfumes, unguents, vinegar, water, and wine (ampulla potoria). Lekythi were of constant use at the toilets of Greek ladies. They also held the oil used in anointing the bodies of the dead. The ampulla was used in the Christian Church as a receptacle for the wine and water of the sacrament, and also for holding the consecrated oil or chrism.

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

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