Fig. 203.—Lamp stand, of bronze.
Kitchen utensils of bronze and red earthenware have been found in great quantity; table furnishings more rarely. A group of typical examples is presented in [Fig. 204]. The forms are so similar to those of the utensils found in modern households that few words of explanation are needed.
Fig. 204.—Bronze utensils.
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- a. Kettle mounted on a tripod ready to be placed on the fire.
- b, g, h, l. Cooking pots.
- c, d. Pails.
- e. Ladle.
- f. Dipper.
- i, t. Baking pans for small cakes.
- k. Pitcher.
- m. Kitchen spoon.
- n, v. Table spoons.
- o, p. Frying pans.
- s. Pastry mould.
- q, u. Wine ladles.
- r. Two-handled pan.
The pastry mould (s) is of good size and neatly finished, and must have left a clear impression. Besides the two types of table spoons illustrated here (n, v) a third is represented by examples found at Pompeii, the cochlear, which had a bowl at one end and ran out into a point at the other. The point was used 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 the liquids they used a large bowl of earthenware or metal, which was often richly ornamented. The mixing bowl presented in [Fig. 205] was found in a house on Abbondanza Street, near the entrance of the building of Eumachia. It is in part inlaid with silver, and nearly twenty-two inches high.