Gell, William: Pompeiana: the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompeii ; the result of excavations since 1819 ; in two volumes (Band 1) (London, 1832)

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inches high, another Mercury four inches
high, and many bronze lamps and stands
were excavated. Several vases, basins with
handles, one of which was formed by the
wings of swans, paterae, bells, an inkstand,
a strigil, elastic springs, a needle, hinges or
cardines, a lock, buckles for harness, an
oval caldron, a mould for pastry, and a
saucepan, contribute to our knowledge of
the common utensils of the Ancients.

Here have also been discovered no fewer
than two hundred and fifty little bottles of
common glass, forty-one bottles nine inches
high, four decanters and many fluted tum-
blers, six tumblers eight inches high and
only two inches and two-fifths in diameter,
with thirty Clips of green glass, and four
plates six inches in diameter. Besides these
were found several bottles formed of four
bulbs united, twenty-six tazze, and ten other
cups. In marble was discovered a small
laughing Faun, a disc of porphyry, and a
weight, used in spinning by hand, of alabaster
with its ivory axis remaining. The list fi-
nishes with a leaden weight, forty-nine com-
mon pottery lamps with masks and animals,