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chained_bear commented on the word thymiateria
"Sailors and travelers carried portable incense burners known as thymiateria, often shaped in the form of figurines with a concave top; examples have been recovered from the wreck of the Lion Ship, excavated from the silt of Pisa harbor, where it sank early int he second century B.C."
--Jack Turner, _Spice: The History of a Temptation_ (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), 229
December 6, 2016