. 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 . 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
. 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 . 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-judge from the eye at the top of the handle, which, with the. Simpula, massive leaves and volutes below the rings, and the ovolomoulding, is not without pretensions to elegance. Fig. 2 isonly remarkable for a double handle, which lies upon the I
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