1892 Drinks of the world

DRINKS.

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the expression of Propertius, '' coda focisy' proves that they were manufactured In the time of Belon (1555)

AMPHORA, RHYTONS, ETC. {Brit. Mus.).

the Greeks called them the myrrh of Smyrna, from murex, a shell. From this it seems that their name was given to the vases from a resemblance of colours