*)obeli/as a)/rtos.
For the missing glossing see
Photius omicron6 Theodoridis (from
Pausanias the Atticist omicron1), with other references there.
"
Obelias bread is so named either because it is sold for an obol, as in Alexandria, or because it used to be baked on spits (
obeliskoi)" (
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 3.111B [3.76 Kaibel]). The first of these meanings ought really to produce
obOlias, and sometimes it does (see LSJ s.v., web address 1); but as
Athenaeus shows, not necessarily. Nevertheless, the "spit" connection is the authentic one (cf.
omicron 6).
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