This volume deals with equipment and instruments of the Roman world used in processing and storage as opposed to cultivation.
This book deals with the tools that the Roman world used in farming and with the way they used them. The author uses practical knowledge of agriculture, as well as learning, to identify and interpret the objects under examination.
In this comprehensive and authoritative study, K.D. White draws on such widely diverse sources as th works of Pliny and Vitruvius and the most up-to-date literature on the subject.