chest/box (usu. made of wicker); box for sacred ceremonial objects
Latin word, found 13 times in the texts on Socratos.
Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.197: Quaternos HS, quos mihi senatus decrevit et ex aerario dedit, ego habebo et in cistam transferam de fisco. quid postea? quid? pro singulis modiis, quos tibi impero, tu mihi octonos HS dato. qua r …
Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.554: clauserat Actaeo texta de vimine cista
Juvenal, Saturae 3.7.11: stantibus, oenophorum tripedes armaria cistas,
All forms of cista