. Pompeii : its life and art . he earth; asmall, round hole between the basin and each jar seems to markthe place of a pipe tile, connected with the former at the bot-tom. The large pits were for ordinary tanning; the oblongbasins were probably used in making fine leather (alutd), a pro-cess in which alum was the principal agent, the chemicals beingplaced in the jars on either side, and supplied to the basinsthrough the pipe tiles. In the same building four tools were found, similar to thoseused by tanners at the present time. One was a knife, ofbronze, with a charred wooden handle on the back
. Pompeii : its life and art . he earth; asmall, round hole between the basin and each jar seems to markthe place of a pipe tile, connected with the former at the bot-tom. The large pits were for ordinary tanning; the oblongbasins were probably used in making fine leather (alutd), a pro-cess in which alum was the principal agent, the chemicals beingplaced in the jars on either side, and supplied to the basinsthrough the pipe tiles. In the same building four tools were found, similar to thoseused by tanners at the present time. One was a knife, ofbronze, with a charred wooden handle on the back of the blade;two were scraping irons, with a handle on each end; and therewas another iron tool with a crescent-shaped blade. The garden on which the colonnade opened contains an open-air triclinium. The table was ornamented with a mosaic top,now in the Naples Museum, with a characteristic design (). The principal motive is a skull; below is a butterflv onthe rim of a wheel, symbols of the fluttering of the disembodied. Fig. 219. — Plan of the vat room of the tannery. THE FULLERS AND THE TANNERS 391 soul and of the flight of time. On the right and on the left are thespoils that short-lived man leaves behind him, —here a wanderersstaff, a wallet, and a beggars tattered robe; there, a sceptre,with a mantle of royal purple. Over all is a level, with the
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