Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, palaces, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1883)
Yaggy, Levi W, Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis), b. 1844 · Alexandria, Va., W.P. Grant & co. · leaf 319
of tap,the larger part being placed within the barrel, and the winedrawn off through the neck or spout, which is broken. Fig. n^is a wine-taster, something on the principle of a siphon. It ishollow, and the air being exhausted by the mouth at the smallend, the liquid to be tasted was drawn up into… … GLASS VESSELS {of Pomyeii). GLASS VESSELS. 303 Another sort of glass strainer, of which there are severai inthe Neapolitan Museum, is made of bronze, pierced in elegantand intricate pa^tterns as seen on page- 84. The Romans usedstrainers filled with snow to cool their wines, and such may havebeen…
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