Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Scutella
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich.
SCUTEL'LA. A diminutive of SCUTRA. A salver or waiter upon which other vessels were placed to be brought up and handed round to the guests at table (Ulp. Dig. 34. 2. 20.); thus potionis scutella (Cic. Tusc. iii. 19.), a salver on which goblets of wine, or any other beverage, are handed about, like the annexed example (Scutella/1.1), from a picture of "still life" painted at Pompeii.
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Scutella/1.1