A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 190
OMAN LIFE. in a vessel. This method is expressly condemned by Varro, anearly Roman writer on agriculture.1 In order to extract the oil from the pulp of the fruit, it wasnecessary to use a press of some kind, such as we see on the terra-cotta relief here exhibited (No. 522 ; fig. 212), of the first… … Fig. 212.—Satyrs at Oil-Press (No. 522). Ht. 7 in. round the press a rope is wound many times. Compare the largevase in the Hall of Inscriptions (Cat. of Sculpture, 2502). The remaining objects in this Case are mostly illustrative ofmen or beasts of burden engaged in agricultural and…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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