. 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 . e rim of the brazier, and made hollow to receivewater. On the edge of this stand three eagles, with theirheads curving downwards towards their breasts, intended pro-bably to support a boiler. A sort of tower rises at the sideof this semicircular part, which has a moveable lid, with a I DOMESTIC UTENSILS. 553 bust for the handle. The water was drawn off, as in theformer instance, through the mask
. 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 . e rim of the brazier, and made hollow to receivewater. On the edge of this stand three eagles, with theirheads curving downwards towards their breasts, intended pro-bably to support a boiler. A sort of tower rises at the sideof this semicircular part, which has a moveable lid, with a I DOMESTIC UTENSILS. 553 bust for the handle. The water was drawn off, as in theformer instance, through the mask in front. The following vase, if not equal in beauty to those alreadydescribed, is curious in form and rich in ornament. The lipis elegantly finished with a double row of ovoli. The handleis elaborate and elegant. Its design seems taken from aflower-stalk, which divides at top, and falls down on each sideof the vase on two cornucopias. Two goats recline upon theedge of the vase, looking towards each other. The junctionof the lower end of the handle with the vase is richly orna-mented with acanthus leaves, and a winged child among them,holding a wine-skin. The base is disjDroportionately Bronze Vase. This seems, from the ornaments, to have been a wine-vessel,and probably was used in sacrifice, as well as in domesticlife. The next groups of vessels, though nearly destitute of orna-ment, and probably of a very ordinary class, will serve togive us some idea of the cooking vessels of the first four are ladles (simpula), used, among other purposes,for making libations from larger vessels. One of the mostcelebrated vases in the Neapolitan collection, was found witha bronze simpulum in it; and upon the vase itself there was asacrificial painting, representing a priest in the act of pouringout a libation from a vase with the simpulum. 554 POMPEII. The other four vessels require and admit of littlo explana-tion. The first seems meant to hang over the fire, if wc may-j
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