Batillum
Batillum (batillum or vatillum, Hor. Sat. 1.5, 36), a shovel with a short handle, made of iron (Plin. Nat. 33.127, 34.112), used for various purposes, such as collecting dung (Varr. R. R. 3.6.3), and also as a fire-shovel, or cafing-dish, sometimes used to burn perfumes or incense. (Hor. l.c.; Treb. Poll. Claud. 14; Salmas. and Casaub. ad loc.; Apic. 7.9.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.