. Pompeii : its life and art . a lead kettle (3) with a place for buildinga fire underneath ; perhaps wine was heated in it. The vats inthe court seem not to have been used exclusively for wine. Inone were found remains of wheat, in another of millet. Othervats stood in the passageway on the side of the court (Q, 1). Three of the small rooms toward the rear were sleeping rooms( V- V). In another (X) was found a hand mill. At the end of THE VILLA RUSTICA AT BOSCOREALE 359 the passageway was a double room containing the appliancesfor making oil, a press (in Y) and a crusher (in Z). The presswas
. Pompeii : its life and art . a lead kettle (3) with a place for buildinga fire underneath ; perhaps wine was heated in it. The vats inthe court seem not to have been used exclusively for wine. Inone were found remains of wheat, in another of millet. Othervats stood in the passageway on the side of the court (Q, 1). Three of the small rooms toward the rear were sleeping rooms( V- V). In another (X) was found a hand mill. At the end of THE VILLA RUSTICA AT BOSCOREALE 359 the passageway was a double room containing the appliancesfor making oil, a press (in Y) and a crusher (in Z). The presswas like the wine press described above, only much smaller, witha raised floor (i), a standard for the press beam (2), a pit forbracing the standard of the press beam (3), two posts at theends of the windlass (4, 4), a pit from which a crosspiece con-necting these posts could be reached, and a vat (6) at one sidefor receiving the oil. This vat, for some reason not understood,was divided into two parts by a partition in the Fig. 179. — Olive crusher. The olive crusher, trapetum, now in the Museum at Pompeiimentioned above, is shown in the accompanying illustration(Fig. 179). It was designed to separate the pulp of the olivesfrom the stones, which were thought to impair the flavor of theoil. It consists of a deep circular basin of lava, so hollowedout as to leave in the centre a strong standard of the stone,miliarium. In the top of this standard was set an iron pin,on which was fitted a revolving wooden crosspiece (shown inFig. 179, restored). This carried two wheels of lava, having theshape of half a lens, which travelled in the basin. The wheelswere carefully balanced so that they would not press againstthe side of the basin and crush the stones of the olives. 360 POMPEII In the long room >S remains of bean straw and parts of awagon were found, but the purpose of the room is not of it is the threshing floor (T), the surface of which israised above the
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