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

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and Obturamentum. A stopper for closing the mouth of a jar or bottle. It was sometimes of cork and sometimes

Glass Bottle with Obturaculum. (Found at Pompeii.)

of glass (Marcell. Empir. 35; Pliny , Pliny H. N. xvi. 13).

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)