THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Instruments
1. INSTRUMENTS. Rome.
Adits in the marcasite mine according to Galenus.
Reconstruction of H. Wilsdorf.
2. INSTRUMENTS. Greece.
Descent to the mine by the wooden ladder.
3. INSTRUMENTS. Greece.
Dioptra.
Draft by Heron.
4. INSTRUMENTS. Rome.
Groma.
5. INSTRUMENTS. Greece.
Harness of horses in a chariot.
Homeric times.
6. INSTRUMENTS. Rome.
Instruments of alchemists for distilling.
1 and 2 — distillation retorts; 3 — retort for evaporator; 4 — retort for condensation; a — copper head, b — receivers, c — burner, d — protection sheath preventing the loss of warm.
7. INSTRUMENTS. Greece.
Miner in the pit-face with a pick.
Picture in the mine of Penteskuphia nearby Corinth.
Ca. 650—600 BCE.
8. INSTRUMENTS. Rome.
Prospect-holes in the mine of Vispasca, branching off the central gallery.
Reconstruction of H. Wilsdorf.
9. INSTRUMENTS. Rome.
Scheme of water lifting in the mine.
10. INSTRUMENTS. Rome.
Kiln with the panel separating the furnace from the kilning chamber, from Apulum.
150 CE.
Alba-Julia (Romania).
11. INSTRUMENTS. Rome.
Handmill.
Arezzo, Civic Archaeological Museum.
12. INSTRUMENTS. Greece.
Stone engraved with standard measurements.
4th cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 5352.
Athens, Archaeological Museum of Piraeus.
13. INSTRUMENTS. Greece.
Stone engraved with standard measurements (scheme).
4th cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 5352.
Athens, Archaeological Museum of Piraeus.
14. INSTRUMENTS. Greece.
Ore extraction.
Votive tablet from the a mine of Penteskuphia nearby Corinth.
Ca. 650—600 BCE.
Inv. No. F 871.
Berlin, State Museums, Old Museum.
15. INSTRUMENTS. Rome.
Styli.
Bone.
Cremona, San Lorenzo Archaeological Museum.
16. INSTRUMENTS. Rome.
Strigili.
Bronze.
Late 1st cent. BCE—early 1st cent. CE.
Milan, Civic Archaeological Museum.
17. INSTRUMENTS. Rome.
Mill from Ostia.
Ostia, Archaeological Park “Ostia Antica”, I, 3, 1.
18. ARCHITECTURE. Rome.
Bakery on the Via dei Mulini.
2nd century CE.
Ostia, Archaeological Park “Ostia Antica”, I, 3, 1.
19. INSTRUMENTS. Rome.
Mill in the bakery on the Via dei Mulini.
Volcanic stone. 2nd century CE.
Ostia, Archaeological Park “Ostia Antica”, I, 3, 1.
20. INSTRUMENTS. Rome.
Roman abacus.
Bronze.
2nd cent. CE.
Paris, National Library of France, Cabinet of Medals.