were a sort of cups or vases made use of by the ancients. Authors are not agreed as to the substance of which they were made. Some say they were of stone; others assert that they were made of a fluid condensed by being buried under ground. All that we know concerning the matter is, that this kind of cup was known by the name of murrha, and that Heliodorus's chamber-pot was made of it. The word is sometimes written myrrhina.