Английская Википедия:Authepsa
In classical antiquity, an Шаблон:Lang or Шаблон:Lang (Шаблон:Lang-grc, Шаблон:Transl; from Шаблон:Lang + Шаблон:Lang, "self-boiling", "self-cooking")[1] was a vessel used for water heating. Basically, it was a vase with a central tube used to keep coals.
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities describes it as follows:[2]
AUTHEPSA (Шаблон:Lang), or “self-boiler”, was a vessel used for heating water or keeping it hot. As is well known, both hot and cold water were served by the attendants at well-appointed Roman tables (Шаблон:Lang, Juv. 5.63, with Mayor's note). For this purpose vessels were used which cannot have differed much in construction from our modern tea-urns (Böttiger, Sabina, 2.30), and like them might be made of costly materials and in artistic designs (Шаблон:Lang, Cic. pro Rose. Amer. 46.133; Шаблон:Lang, Lamprid. Heliog. 19).
Many ingenious contrivances for economical and portable cooking have been found at Pompeii and Herculaneum, and are now in the Museo Nazionale (formerly Borbonico) at Naples. It is probable, however, that the Шаблон:Lang, unlike the Шаблон:Lang and Шаблон:Lang, was not used for cooking; and it is rather to be identified with a utensil from the same collection (Mus. Borbon. vol. iii. pl. 63) in the first cut above. This vessel is in bronze, and of very tasteful workmanship: the cylinder in the centre was filled with charcoal, and has a grating which allowed the air to enter and the ashes to escape. The second cut, from Mus. Borbon. vol. v. pl. 44, shows another of more elaborate construction.
The Russian samovar is likewise explained to mean “self-boiler”, and appears to be little different from the Шаблон:Lang.
References
- ↑ "Definition of authepsa" at Numen. The Latin Lexicon.
- ↑ A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 1890 edition at Perseus Project (the book is in public domain).
