σκάφη

I. trough, tub, basin, or bowl (Hom. only in Dim. σκαφίς), Hdt. 4.73, Ar. Ec. 742, etc.; kneading-trough or baker's tray, Timocl. 33, cf. Poll. 10.102; wash-tub, bath, A. Fr. 225, Hp. Steril. 234; bowl or tray on which offerings were carried by metoeci at the Panathenaea, etc., IG 12.844.6, 22.1388.46, al., Semus 5; cf. σκαφηφόρος: prov., τὰ σῦκα σῦκα, τὴν σκάφην σκάφην λέγει Apostol. 15.95b, cf. Plu. 2.178b, Luc. Hist.Conscr. 41, Jul. Or. 7.208a.

2. light boat, skiff, Ar. Eq. 1315 (with a pun on signf. 1), PCair.Zen. 25.5 (iii B.C.), Plb. 1.23.7; used for cargo, BGU 1742.9 (i B.C.); boat-load, ξύλων PGrad. 9.5 (iii B.C.).

3. child's cradle, Arist. Po. 1454b25, Phylarch. 36 J., Plu. Rom. 3, Sor. 1.106, al., Sch. Ar. Lys. 138 (prob.).

4. grave, BCH 24.394 (Bithynia).

II. concave sun-dial, Vitr. 9.8.1, Cleom. 1.10, cf. Poll. 6.110. (Prob. orig. something dug or scooped out, fr. σκάπτω.)