. Pompeii : its life and art . Fig. 209. — Plan of a bakery. 8. Atrium. 17. Oven. 15. Mill room. 18. Kneading room. 16. Stable. 19. Storeroom. THE BAKERS 3Si. Fig. 210. ?A Pompeian mill, without itsframework. dess of bakers, between the two Lares. On one side of the oven (17) is the kneading room (19), on the other the storeroom (18). The room at the left (16) is the stall for the donkeys that turned the mills. The mills of Pompeii, with slight variations, are all of one type ; if there were water-mills on the Sarno, no trace of them has been found. The millstones are of lava (p. 15). The lowe
. Pompeii : its life and art . Fig. 209. — Plan of a bakery. 8. Atrium. 17. Oven. 15. Mill room. 18. Kneading room. 16. Stable. 19. Storeroom. THE BAKERS 3Si. Fig. 210. ?A Pompeian mill, without itsframework. dess of bakers, between the two Lares. On one side of the oven (17) is the kneading room (19), on the other the storeroom (18). The room at the left (16) is the stall for the donkeys that turned the mills. The mills of Pompeii, with slight variations, are all of one type ; if there were water-mills on the Sarno, no trace of them has been found. The millstones are of lava (p. 15). The lower stone, mcta, has the shape of a cone resting on the end of a cylinder, but the cylindrical part is in most cases partially concealed by a thick hoop of masonry, the top of which was formed into a trough to receive the flour, and was covered with sheet lead (Fig. 210). A square hole, five or six inches across, was cut in the top of the cone, in which was inserted a wooden standard;this supported a vertical ironpivot on which the frame ofthe upper millstone turned. The shape of the uppermillstone, catillus, may bestbe seen in Fig. 211. It waslike a d
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