Meaning & use
Patera
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A shallow, saucer-like dish used in ancient Greece and Rome for drinking or for pouring liquid offerings to the gods.
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The museum displayed a bronze patera excavated from an Etruscan tomb.
Priests poured wine from a patera during the sacrificial ritual.
A note on using this word
The term is also used in planetary geology for a shallow, irregular volcanic crater, such as those found on Jupiter's moon Io.
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