Craticula
Craticula the diminutive of crates, seems always to mean a gridiron (Mart. 14.221). In Petronius (Sat. 31 and 70) it is of silver, and brought to table by the slaves; an anticipation of the modern silver grill.
In Cato (Cat. Agr. 13.1), the true reading is probably lucernas craticulas, wicker lanterns.
Several ancient gridirons, found at Pompeii, are now in the Naples Museum.
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.