. The life of the Greeks and Romans. raves. The fireplace has aflat top full of holes, through which the heat enters the baking-oven. A similar arrangement is shown in the tilers and pottersovens found near Pheinzabern (in 1858, thirty-six of the former 524 A CUTLERS SHOP. and seventy-seven of the latter kind had been discovered), as alsoin those found near Waiblingen (Wiirtemberg) ; at the excava-tion of the latter, in 1840, the author was present. The surface of a kylix in the Royal Museum, Berlin (Gerhard, Trinkschalen des Kgl. Museums, Tafs. XII., XIII.), representsthe workshop of a metal-
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. raves. The fireplace has aflat top full of holes, through which the heat enters the baking-oven. A similar arrangement is shown in the tilers and pottersovens found near Pheinzabern (in 1858, thirty-six of the former 524 A CUTLERS SHOP. and seventy-seven of the latter kind had been discovered), as alsoin those found near Waiblingen (Wiirtemberg) ; at the excava-tion of the latter, in 1840, the author was present. The surface of a kylix in the Royal Museum, Berlin (Gerhard, Trinkschalen des Kgl. Museums, Tafs. XII., XIII.), representsthe workshop of a metal-founder; although taken from Greeklife, the picture will serve our present purpose. We there see thelarge furnace with the cauldron standing on it; one workman ispoking the fire, while another, leaning on his sledge-hammer,seems to wait for the melting of the metal. In another part ofthe shop the bronze statue of a praying youth lies on the head has not yet been soldered on to the body; a man is working with a hammer at mm. figure. On one arm of thethe opposite side is seen,under a scaffolding, the fin-ished colossal statue of ayouthful warrior ; two work-men are polishing the legswith a scraper, while twomen in long cloaks, mostlikely the artist and the ownerof the foundry, are looking , saws, modelledarms, legs, and heads, andsketches on tablets, cover thewalls. Yulcans smithy hasbeen shown, Fig. 261: cyclopsat their work are frequently met with in bas-reliefs (Millin, Gallerie Mythol., No. 383). A cutlers shop and workshop areillustrated by two bas-reliefs on a cippus in the Vatican, theformer of which (Fig. 486) shows a rich choice of sickles, pruning-knives, and long carving-knives. The owner of the business seemsto be selling a knife to a customer. Fig. 487, from a bas-relief found at Capua, has, according to itsinscription, been let into the proscenium wall of a stage byLucceius Peculiaris, a builder, in consequence of a dream he the figure o
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