Life in the Roman world of Nero and StPaul . Fig. 70. — Bakers Mills. (Pompeii.) the baker, the goldsmith, the wine-seller, and thewreath-maker at their work. We can discern some-thing of the retail trade in the Forum; or we can seethe auctioneer making up his accounts. The baker, for example, was his own are still standing the mills, with the upperstone — a hollow cylinder with a pinched waist —capable of revolving upon the under stone and letting XIV MIDDLE AND LOWER CLASSES 249 the flour drop into the rim below. Into the holesin the middle of the upper or donkey stone, andacros
Life in the Roman world of Nero and StPaul . Fig. 70. — Bakers Mills. (Pompeii.) the baker, the goldsmith, the wine-seller, and thewreath-maker at their work. We can discern some-thing of the retail trade in the Forum; or we can seethe auctioneer making up his accounts. The baker, for example, was his own are still standing the mills, with the upperstone — a hollow cylinder with a pinched waist —capable of revolving upon the under stone and letting XIV MIDDLE AND LOWER CLASSES 249 the flour drop into the rim below. Into the holesin the middle of the upper or donkey stone, andacross the top, were fixed wooden bars, which were. Fig. 71. — Cupids as Goldsmiths. (Wall Painting.) either pushed by men or drawn by asses yoked tothem. The oven is still in place, and, charred asthey are, we are quite familiar with the round flatloaves shaped and divided like a large cross bun. 250 LIFE IN THE ROMAN WORLD The dough was kneaded by a vertical shaft with armsrevolving in a receptacle, from the sides of whichother arms projected inwards, so that there was httleroom for the dough to be squeezed between have pictures of the fuller, to whom the woollengarments — the togas and tunics, and the mantles ofthe women — were regularly sent to be washed bytreading in vats, to be beaten, stretched, and bleachedwith sulphur, and to have their naps raised with acomb or a bunch of thorns. The goldsmith is depicted
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