πῠρεῖον,
Ionic dialect πυρ-ήϊον, τό, mostly in plural, firesticks, [[ hymnus ad Mercurium 111, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 36, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 5.3.4, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 5.67, etc.; τάχ᾽ ἂν.. τρίβοντες, ὥσπερ ἐκ πυρείων, ἐκλάμψαι ποιήσαιμεν τὴν δικαιοσύνην 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 435a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πυοεῖά τε χερσὶν ἐνώμων [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.33; ἀμφὶ πυρήϊα δινεύεσκον 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.1184; πυρεῖα συντρίψαντες 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “VH” 1.32 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; the stationary piece was called ἐσχάρα, the drill τρύπανον, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Igne” 64. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II singular, earthen pan for coals (= θυμιατήριον, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus (πυρίον), 9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc., 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus), LXX.Exo.27.3: _plural_, LXX.2Ch.4.11, 21. ] LXX+5th c.AD+]