Pulverem facito, et cribello medicinali omnem pulverem cerne et permisce, et cum vino vetere calefacto locum inline.
There are large numbers of sieves and strainers in bronze and earthenware in the Naples Museum.
Paul (VII. xx) says oil of sesame is to be prepared from sesame pounded, softened, and pressed in a strainer with screws (διὰ κυρτίδων τῶν κοχλιῶν). The word κυρτίς literally means a basket or wicker eel-trap. Here it must mean a strainer.
Mortar and Pestle.
Greek, ἰγδίον, mortar: δοῖδυξ, pestle; Latin, mortarium, pilum.
In the find of the oculist Severus is a bronze dish which Deneffe regards as a mortar. It is 8 cm. in diameter and 3·5 deep, and rests on a base of 3 cm. diameter, so that it sits firmly. Marcellus (De Medic. i) mentions a mortar of marble:
Haec universa conteres in mortario marmoreo, et aceto admixto fronti inlines.
He also mentions one of wood:
Huius radicem colliges et findes in partes duas, quarum unam siccabis ac minutatim concides et mittes in pilam ligneam atque illic diligenter tundes (xxiii).