Phials

Libation of a young man with a phial on the altar, red-figure vase painting around 480 BC By the painter Makron

The phial ( Greek : ἡ φιάλη ) is a flat, handle and footless sacrificial bowl from ancient Greece .

It was used for giving drinks and for libations . Such sacrifices are depicted in Greek vase painting . This tradition was continued by other cultures, such as the Romans , who used the patera , a kind of saucepan, as a pontifical device.

The fountain bowl in a pillared courtyard is also known as a phial .

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Boris Parashkevov: Words and names of the same origin and structure: Lexicon of etymological duplicates in German . Walter de Gruyter, 2004, ISBN 3-11-017469-3 , p. 265 ( limited preview in Google Book search).