Pompeii, its history, buildings, and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations, and also an itinerary for visitors . Bread discovered iu Pompeii. Their loaves appear to have been very often baked in moulds,several of which have been found: these may possibly beartoptas, and the loaves thus baked, artopticii. Several ofthese loaves have been found entire. They are flat, andabout eight inches in diameter. One in the NeapolitanMuseum has a stamp on the top :— SILIGO . CRANIIE . CICER This has been interpreted to m
Pompeii, its history, buildings, and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations, and also an itinerary for visitors . Bread discovered iu Pompeii. Their loaves appear to have been very often baked in moulds,several of which have been found: these may possibly beartoptas, and the loaves thus baked, artopticii. Several ofthese loaves have been found entire. They are flat, andabout eight inches in diameter. One in the NeapolitanMuseum has a stamp on the top :— SILIGO . CRANIIE . CICER This has been interpreted to mean that cicer (vetch) was mixedwith the flour. We know from Pliny that the Komans usedseveral sorts of grain. FULLONICA. 361. 362 pompeii. In front of the house, one on each side the doorway, thereare two shops. Neither of these has any communicationwith the house : it is inferred, therefore, that they were letout to others, like the shops belonging to more distinguishedpersons. This supposition is the more probable, becausenone of the bakeries found have had shops attached to them ;and there is a painting in the grand work on Herculaneum,Le Pitture dErcolano, which represents a bread-seller esta-blished in the Forum, with his goods on a little table in theopen air.* There is only one other trade, so far as we are aware, withrespect to the practices of which any knowledge has beengained from the excavations at Pompeii—that of fulling andscouring cloth. This art, owing to the difference of ancientand modern habits, was of much greater importance formerlythan it now is. Wool was almost the only material used fordresses in the earlier times of Rome, silk being unknowntill a late period, and linen garments bei
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