α1050Ἀλαβαστοθήκας
perfume-bottle boxes, scent-bottle boxes
Demosthenes calls boxes of scent-bottles [this]. In common parlance they call them murothekai ["unguent-boxes"]. Alabastoi are flasks of which one cannot take hold because of [their] smoothness. Aristophanes [writes]:…
Ἀλαβαστοθήκας· τὰς θήκας τῶν ἀλαβάστων Δημοσθένης λέγει. ἐν τῇ συνηθείᾳ μυροθήκας καλοῦσιν. ἀλάβαστοι δέ εἰσι λήκυθοι, ὧν οὐκ ἔστι λαβέσθαι διὰ λειότητα. Ἀριστοφάνης· ἐς τὸν…