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There were no plastic ones but there were very probably some wooden ones, or other luxurious wooden items which were destroyed without a trace and we'd never kn
by shawabawa3 2y ago
There were no plastic ones but there were very probably some wooden ones, or other luxurious wooden items which were destroyed without a trace and we'd never know
- perihelions 2y agoI mean, they certainly knew how to make wooden water containers: they wrote it down. This context is dye-making rather than baths, - "...This water is boiled with an equal quantity of pure water, and is then poured into large wooden reservoirs [original: "piscinas ligneas"]. Across these reservoirs there are a number of immovable beams, to which cords are fastened, and then sunk into the water beneath by means of stones; upon which, a slimy..." https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/62704/pg62704-images.html#BOOK_XXXIV_CHAP_32 https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/62704/pg62704-images.ht... ("Chalcanthum, or shoemakers’ black: sixteen remedies" (77)) https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0138%3Abook%3D34%3Achapter%3D48 https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext...