[headdress] The modius is a type of flat-topped cylindrical headdress or crown found in ancient Egyptian art and art of the Greco-Roman world. The name was given by modern scholars based on its resemblance to the basket used as a Roman unit of dry measure. The modius is worn by certain deities, including Mut, Eleusinian deities and their Ro...
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cylindrical headdress of the gods
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• (n.) A dry measure, containing about a peck.
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(from the article `measurement system`) The principal Roman capacity measures were the hemina, sextarius, modius, and amphora for dry products and the quartarus, sextarius, ...
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Mo'di·us noun ;
plural Modii . [ Latin ]
(Rom. Antiq.) A dry measure, containing about a peck.
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Roman dry measurement, 16 sextarii or approximately 1 peck.
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