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190 POMPBIANA.
colour. The ancients seem to have dyed
and cleansed their garments with great care,
and to have used sulphur, and a variety of
other ingredients, with fuller's earth and lime,
for that purpose. A jar of lime was found
in the fullohica of Pompeii.
At the. east end of the court was a foun-
tain, exhibited in Plate L., one of the pret-
tiest things- of the kind yet discovered, and
showing that :the ancients had the aft of
constructing fountains in jets as we now pos-
sess it.
On the pier, seen in that view on the
left* but the other side, are some curious
scenes relative to the fuller's art, and given
in Plates LI. and LII. The whole pier has,
it seems; been removed to the Museum at
Naples.
There are, under the southern portico,
several small rooms, seemingly appropriated
to the fullers themselves, and the use of the
trade.
Among these, an oven, with a phallus
over the mouth, is found in perfect pre-
servation. The walls of the portico and the
colour. The ancients seem to have dyed
and cleansed their garments with great care,
and to have used sulphur, and a variety of
other ingredients, with fuller's earth and lime,
for that purpose. A jar of lime was found
in the fullohica of Pompeii.
At the. east end of the court was a foun-
tain, exhibited in Plate L., one of the pret-
tiest things- of the kind yet discovered, and
showing that :the ancients had the aft of
constructing fountains in jets as we now pos-
sess it.
On the pier, seen in that view on the
left* but the other side, are some curious
scenes relative to the fuller's art, and given
in Plates LI. and LII. The whole pier has,
it seems; been removed to the Museum at
Naples.
There are, under the southern portico,
several small rooms, seemingly appropriated
to the fullers themselves, and the use of the
trade.
Among these, an oven, with a phallus
over the mouth, is found in perfect pre-
servation. The walls of the portico and the