Bakery (Bakery pistrinum)

Pompeii
Bakery pistrinum
Bakery



A detail of the mill. A beam was fixed on both sides of the metillus. With the beams the metillus was pushed around; either by slaves or donkeys. To me the room between two mills seems to small for animals. Follow the process of bread making


Bakery
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