κέραμος

A. potter's earth, potter's clay, Pl. Ti. 60d, Arist. Mete. 384b19, etc.; κ. ὠμός, ὀπτώμενος, ib.380b8, 383a21.

II. anything made of this earth, as

1. earthen vessel, wine-jar, ἐκ κεράμων μέθυ πίνετο Il. 9.469, cf. Hdt. 3.96; in collective sense, pottery, Ar. Ach. 902, Men. Sam. 75, al.; κ. ἐσάγεται πλήρης οἴνου jars full of wine, Hdt. 3.6, cf. 5.88, Alex. 257.3, etc.

b. jar of other material, κ. ἀργυροῦς Ptol.Euerg. 7J.

2. tile, Ar. V. 1295 (of a tortoise's shell); collectively, tiling, τοῦ τέγους τὸν κέραμον αὐτοῦ χαλάζαις . . ξυντρίψομεν Id. Nu. 1127, cf.Fr. 349, Th. 2.4; Κορίνθιος κ. IG 22.1668.58; Λακωνικός ib.463.69, 1672.188; roof, Pherecr. 130.6, Herod. 3.44, Gal. 8.26, 9.824.

3. pottery (i.e.place of manufacture), ὁ κ. ὁ χυτρικός Tab.Defix.Praef.p.iib.

III. dungeon (said by Sch. to be Cyprian), χαλκέῳ ἐν κεράμῳ δέδετο Il. 5.387, cf. Thphr. Char. 6.6 cod. M; pl., Nonn. D. 16.162. (Possibly cogn. with Lat.cremo.)