d century b. c. ; it isdescribed in chap. VIII, § 6. Workers in ivory were/, eborarii; thechief articles produced by them were tables, couches, cvC, andbook-covers. 1 When the cult of Attis became popular under the early Empire (cf. p. 295),the members of this guild carried the sacred pine-tree in… … H3 a O Q 334 PKODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION chap.v D. Earthenware.The trade of the potter (figulus) goes back to primitive times—we find a guild of figuli attributed to Numa—and was then pliedby humble craftsmen ; but in the later period of Roman historythis was not so. We must distinguish fine…
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