sof various dates and styles, and many of the pieces had passedthrough the hands of other owners : the name of Pamphilus,freedman of Caesar, may be read on four salt-cellars in the classicalAugustan manner beside that of Maxima; and a pair of scypliiwith a naturalistic design of olive-leaves… … Fig. 62. Cup found at Alise-Sainte-Eeine. distinguished the argentum escarhim and a.potorhim, or eating- anddrinking-vessels, which went to make up a ministerium or * serviceof plate, from the argentum balneare (mirrors and other toilet-objects), which belonged to the munclus muliebris; and both…
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