Comment by shawabawa3
Comment by shawabawa3 3 months 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
Comment by shawabawa3 3 months 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
I 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.ht... ("Chalcanthum, or shoemakers’ black: sixteen remedies" (77))
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext...