πιθάκνη

A. cask or jar, Ar. Pl. 546, Ion Trag.10, BCH 50.214 (Thasos, v B.C.); used for storing figs, etc., D. 30.28, Pl.Com. 114, Thphr. Sign. 49, OGI 483.149 (Pergam., ii A.D.); οἰκεῖν ἐν ταῖς φιδάκναις live in casks, as the poorer Athenians were forced to do during the Peloponn. war, Ar. Eq. 792; π. ἰατρική a medicine-jar, Gal. 19.115, cf. UP 4.3 :—also πιθακνίς, ίδος, ἡ, Att. φιδακνίς, Poll. 10.74, 131; Dim. πιθάκνιον, τό, Eub. 132, Hyp. Fr. 265, Luc. Hist.Conscr. 4, etc. (Dim. of πίθος, as πολίχνη of πόλις, Sch.Ar. Eq.l.c.)