Jean-Claude Golvin

The mensores

Type

Drawing

Equipment used

Black ink, Graphite, Paper, Watercolor

Dimensions

32 x 24 cm (overall)

Period

antiquity

Geographical area

Location or theme

Ostia (Ostia)

Miscellaneous

Presentation :

Front view of five mensores frumentarii at work. The drawing is in portrait format. It is framed in ink. Inscriptions and traces of watercolor are visible in the margins.
Five people can be seen through a doorway. The two figures on the left each carry a sack of wheat. The three on the right are gathered around a barrel.
The one in the center holds a rod in his hand and measures the quantity of wheat in the barrel.
This is a reconstruction of a mosaic from Ostia.

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