Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Simpulum

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. 

SIM'PULUM. A ladle or cup (cyathus) with a long handle, employed at the sacrifice for taking the wine in small quantities (Varro, L. L. v. 124.) out of the crater or other large vessel, in order to make libations. (Festus, s. v. Apul. Apol. p. 434.) The right side of the following wood-cut (Simpulum/1.1) exhibits the implement itself, from an original found in a fictile vase, which has a picture on its outside, representing a priestess in the act of filling a cup with wine, taken out of a larger vessel with the simpulum, as shown by the illustration.

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  Simpulum/1.1