. Pompeii : its life and art . third is represented by ex-amples found at Pompeii, the cochlear, which had a bowl at one 21! 37° POMPEII end and ran out into a point at the other. The point wasused in picking shellfish out of their shells, the bowl in eating eggs. The two long ladles were used in dipping wine out of the mixing bowl into the cups. The ancients ordinarily drank their wine mingled with water; for mixing theliquids they used a large bowl of earth-enware or metal, which was often richlyornamented. The mixing bowl pre-sented in Fig. 197 was found in a houseon Street, near
. Pompeii : its life and art . third is represented by ex-amples found at Pompeii, the cochlear, which had a bowl at one 21! 37° POMPEII end and ran out into a point at the other. The point wasused in picking shellfish out of their shells, the bowl in eating eggs. The two long ladles were used in dipping wine out of the mixing bowl into the cups. The ancients ordinarily drank their wine mingled with water; for mixing theliquids they used a large bowl of earth-enware or metal, which was often richlyornamented. The mixing bowl pre-sented in Fig. 197 was found in a houseon Street, near the en-trance of the building of Eumachia. Itis in part inlaid with silver, and nearlytwenty-two inches high. Hot water was often preferred formixing with wine, and small heatersof ornamental design were sometimesused upon the table. The ancientname for these utensils is autkepsa, self-cooker ; the appropriateness ofit is apparent from an example found at Pompeii, in which the coals of fire were entirely concealed from Fig. 197. — Mixing bowl, of bronzein part inlaid with silver.
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