. The life of the Greeks and Romans. Fig. 484. 522 SCALES. for himself and his wife, Atistia. The name of the monument ispanarium (bread-basket), and it is adorned with the emblems ofthe trade, amongst which we distinguish heaps of corn, two millsmoved by donkeys, two flour-strainers, and two millers knives ;also a machine for kneading dough moved by horses. A similarmachine appears in a relief on a sarcophagus of the Lateran(Gerhard, Denkm. u. Forsch., 1861, No. 148). Scales to weighlarge and heavy quantities (a pair of which also appears on the. b Fig. 485. monument of Eurysaces) are frequen
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. Fig. 484. 522 SCALES. for himself and his wife, Atistia. The name of the monument ispanarium (bread-basket), and it is adorned with the emblems ofthe trade, amongst which we distinguish heaps of corn, two millsmoved by donkeys, two flour-strainers, and two millers knives ;also a machine for kneading dough moved by horses. A similarmachine appears in a relief on a sarcophagus of the Lateran(Gerhard, Denkm. u. Forsch., 1861, No. 148). Scales to weighlarge and heavy quantities (a pair of which also appears on the. b Fig. 485. monument of Eurysaces) are frequently met with on Roman andGreek monuments ; they resemble those at present in use. Smaller quantities of dry or liquid substances, such as meat,fish, oil, or chemicals, were weighed in the libra (Fig. 485), twospecimens of which have been found at Pompeii. The object tobe weighed is suspended from the smaller of the two unequal endsof the beam (jugum), while to the longer end is attached a weight(cequipondium), by means of a movable ring. By pushing thisequipoise to and from the point of revolution the weight of the INNS AND WINE-SHOPS. 523 object could be determined exactly, this part of the beam beingdivided by means of incised points. Fig. 485, a, shows anotherbalance, from the shorter end of whose beam are suspended a hookand a scale (lanx), the former for the fastening of bottles or potswith fluids, the latter for the reception of dry objects to beweighed. The longer end of the beam is here divided by adouble system of points, the one
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