Olla (Roman pot)
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In ancient Roman culture, the olla is a squat, rounded pot or jar. An olla would be used primarily to cook or store food, hence the word "olla" is still used in some Romance languages for either a coo
An olla appears in the right hand of the Gallo-Roman mallet god Sucellus; the shape of the fragment suggests that the pot itself might have been an olla
Ollae of varying shapes in a reconstruction of a Roman kitchen; top shelf, and on the rack over the fire
Gallic mallet god with olla, perhaps Sucellus
Latin literature
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Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and other writings written in the Latin language. The beginning of formal Latin literature dates to 240 BC, when the first stage play in
Olla (Roman pot)
…it boils up," and describes a patera as an olla with the sides flattened out more broadly. It was a word of ordinary usage, and does not appear in literary works by Vergil, Horace, and Ovid. Unlike the aenum or cauldron, which hung over the fire from chains, the olla had a flat bottom for resting on a hot surface…
Cato the Elder
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