A dictionary of Greek and Roman . ncarries a frame of wicker-work, which was withoutdoubt intended for the purpose described above;he has also a pot in his hand, perhaps intended forholding the sulphur. On his head he wears a kindof garland, which is supposed to be an olive garland,and above him an owl is represented sitting. It isthought that the olive garland and the owl indicatethat the establishment was under the patronage ofMinerva, the tutelary goddess of the loom. Sir imagines that the owl is probably the pictureof a bird which really existed in the family. Onthe le
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . ncarries a frame of wicker-work, which was withoutdoubt intended for the purpose described above;he has also a pot in his hand, perhaps intended forholding the sulphur. On his head he wears a kindof garland, which is supposed to be an olive garland,and above him an owl is represented sitting. It isthought that the olive garland and the owl indicatethat the establishment was under the patronage ofMinerva, the tutelary goddess of the loom. Sir imagines that the owl is probably the pictureof a bird which really existed in the family. Onthe left, a well-dressed female is sitting, examininga piece of work which a younger girl brings to reticulum [see p. 329, a] upon her head, a neck-lace, and bracelets denote a person of higher rankthan one of the ordinary work-people of the es-tablishment. In the following woodcut we see a young manin a green tunic giving a piece of cloth, which ap-pears to be finished, to a woman, who wears agreen under-tunic, and over it a yellow tunic with. red stripes. On the right is another female in awhite tunic, who appears to be engaged in cleaningone of the cards or brushes. Among these paint-ings there was a press, worked by two uprightscrews, in which the cloth was placed to besmoothened. A drawing of this press is given onp. 300. The establishment or workshop of the fullers wascalled Fullonica (Dig. 39. tit. 3. s. 3), Fullonicum FUNAMBULUS.(Dig. 7. tit. L s. 13. § 8), or Fullonium ( xiv. 11. p. 44, Bipant.) Of such establish-ments there were great numbers in Rome, for theRomans do not appear to have washed at homeeven their linen clothes. (Martial, xiv. 51.) Thetrade of the fullers was considered so importantthat the censors, C. Flaminius and L. Aemilius,B. c. 220, prescribed the mode in which the dresseswere to be washed. (Plin. H. N. xxxv. 57.) Likethe other principal trades in Rome, the Fullonesformed a collegium. (Fabretti, Inscr. p. 273.) Tolarge farms a fullonica w
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