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Cooking the volumes - by Amelia Carolina Sparavigna

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Sommario

  1. Introduction
  2. Cooking measures of capacity
  3. An Apicius' recipe
  4. Roman measures of capacity
  5. Capacity and society
  6. References

References

1. Cooking weights and measures, Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooking_weights_and_measures
2. Cup (unit), Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_(unit)
3. Apicius, Cookery and dining in Imperial Rome, De Re Coquinaria, rendered into English by Joseph Dommers Vehling, 1936, reprint 1977, Dover, New York.
4. Alexander Adam, Roman Antiquities: an account of the manners and customs of the Romans, 1819, printed by William A. Mercein, New York.
5. Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, Mythology, and Geography, by William Smith, Harper, New York, 1851.
6. G. Eremo, Dal Po il ''Sextariolus italicus'',
http://pcturismo.liberta.it/asp/default.asp?IDG=46120
7. Modio de Ponte Puñide, http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modio_de_Ponte_Pu%C3%B1ide
8. Rafael de Ureña y Smenjaud, El modius de Ponte Puñide, Alicante: Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, 2008, Edición digital a partir de Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia, tomo 66 (mayo 1915), pp. 485-507, http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra/el-modius-de-ponte-puide-0/
9. Natasha Sheldon, The Market Place, Leptis Magna, Archaeology, http://natasha-sheldon.suite101.com/the-market-place-leptis-magna-a138237
10. James Azema, Libya handbook: the travel guide, Footprint Travel Guides, 2000

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Fig.1 This image reproduces the Table VIII of Ref.5, reporting the volume liquid measures.
Fig.1 This image reproduces the Table VIII of Ref.5, reporting the volume liquid measures.

Fig.2 This image reproduces the Table X of Ref.5, reporting the volume dry measures.
Fig.2 This image reproduces the Table X of Ref.5, reporting the volume dry measures.

Fig.3 The Sextarius “exact measure” [6] and an Acetabulum (Egyptian Museum, Torino).
Fig.3 The Sextarius “exact measure” [6] and an Acetabulum (Egyptian Museum, Torino).

Fig.4 The Modius “exact measure” [8].
Fig.4 The Modius “exact measure” [8].

Fig.5 Roman Silver Cochlearia (Palazzo Madama, Torino)
Fig.5 Roman Silver Cochlearia (Palazzo Madama, Torino)

Fig.6 Roman Silver Ligulae (Palazzo Madama, Torino)
Fig.6 Roman Silver Ligulae (Palazzo Madama, Torino)

Fig.7 A beautiful table in a Pompeii fresco.
Fig.7 A beautiful table in a Pompeii fresco.

Fig.8 Cupids serving the wine from Amphorae in Cyathi, in a Pompeii fresco.
Fig.8 Cupids serving the wine from Amphorae in Cyathi, in a Pompeii fresco.