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Patera   Listen
noun
Patera  n.  (pl. paterae)  
1.
A saucerlike vessel of earthenware or metal, used by the Greeks and Romans in libations and sacrifices.
2.
(Arch.) A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes, and the like.





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"Patera" Quotes from Famous Books



... produced. Nothing was so wretched among the productions of art, that he could not impose upon the world as a capital performance; and so fascinated were the eyes of his admirers, he could easily have persuaded them that a barber's bason was an Etrurian patera, and the cover of a copper pot no other than the shield of Ancus Martius. In short, it was become so fashionable to consult the Count in everything relating to taste and politeness, that not a plan was drawn, not even a house furnished, without his advice and approbation; ...
— The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom, Complete • Tobias Smollett
... imitations that have descended to us from antiquity, none are more remarkable, none more interesting to the antiquary and historian, than the famous Sacro Catino of the cathedral of Genoa. This celebrated relic is a glass dish or patera fourteen inches in width, five inches in depth and of the richest transparent green color, though disfigured by several flaws. It was bestowed upon the republic of Genoa by the Crusaders after the capture of Caesarea in 1101, and was regarded as an equivalent for a large sum of money due from the ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - Vol. XI, No. 27, June, 1873 • Various


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