[49:] See Ann. of Brit. School at Athens, IX., p. 190 ff.
[50:] Ar., Thesm. 421 ff.
[51:] Cf. Plin., H.N. xxxiii. 26: nunc cibi quoque ac potus anulo vindicantur a rapina.
XIII-XVIII.—TRADE AND THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS.
(Wall-Cases 41-53, Table Case H.)
XIII.—TRADE.
The part of the collection now to be described deals generally with commerce and the industrial arts. We have already seen the bird-catcher (p. [115]), the baker (p. [117]), and the shoemaker at work (p. [130]).
In the corners of Cases 41 and 48 are casts of reliefs from the gravestone of L. Cornelius Atimetus, a Roman cutler of the first century A.D. One relief (No. 457; fig. 192) shows the cutler's workshop, with two men working at some object placed on an anvil in front of a furnace. One man holds the object with the tongs, the other hammers it into shape. Above them hang a knife, sickle, tongs, etc. Behind on the left is the bellows. The other relief (No. 458; fig. 193) represents the cutler's shop, with numerous knives and sickles hanging in an open cupboard. The cutler on the right, who wears the tunic only, is showing a knife to a customer on the left, who wears the toga, as a mark of dignity.