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Nero paid three hundred talents for a murrhine vase.

Sometimes purple glass is used in place of brown, probably with the design of imitating the precious murrhine.

F. Corsi, the eminent Italian antiquary, held that fluor-spar was the material of the famous murrhine vases.

"The story is told that when Mark Antony sent him the poison to drink in a murrhine cup, the most valuable article in his collection, Verres drank the poison quickly and dashed the cup upon the marble floor, smashing it into a thousand pieces."

They were murrhine cups, brought from Asia at a great price, of mysterious fabrication, into which entered the dust of certain shells, and myrrh, hardened and tinted.