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Also known as cotyle, kotyle

The cotylae are also features on the proximal end of the radius and of the ulna in birds. thumb|Attic cotyla cup with an owl (5th century BC), National Museum, Warsaw|National Museum, in [[Warsaw]]

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The cotylae are also features on the proximal end of the radius and of the ulna in birds. thumb|Attic cotyla cup with an owl (5th century BC), National Museum, Warsaw|National Museum, in [[Warsaw]]

In classical antiquity, the cotyla or cotyle () was a measure of capacity among the Greeks and Romans: by the latter it was also called ; by the former, and or . It was the half of the sextarius or , and contained six cyathi, or nearly half a pint English.

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