Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Culina

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

CULI'NA. A kitchen. (Cic. Fam. xv. 18. Pet. Sat. 2. 1. Seneca, Ep. 114.) The illustration (Culina/1.1) represents a kitchen stove in the house of Pansa at Pompeii, with some cooking utensils upon it, as discovered when first excavated; viz. a strainer (colum), a kitchen knife (culter coquinaris), and an implement for dressing eggs (supposed apalare); below is the ground-plan of a kitchen in the same city, from the house of the Quaestor, distributed into the following parts. Immediately on the left hand of the entrance there is a semicircular sink (1) , and on the right a staircase (2), which probably led up to the store-rooms; fronting the entrance are the remains of the brickwork which formed the stove (3), similarly constructed to the elevation above; and adjoining this is another small chamber (4), which we might call the back kitchen, with a privy (5) at its furthest extremity; a convenience, which, singularly enough, is generally found adjacent to the kitchens in the houses of Pompeii.

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  Culina/1.1