GRICE E BONAVINO: LA SCHOLA LABRUM DEL TORELLO -- Vitruvio

 93 opens in the back of a segment-shaped bench, around 0.70 m high, installed in the corner of room  h . This water probably served for use in the kitchen and the adjoining rooms. 547  

Even though the primary distribution box of the water system for the house was detected in kitchen  l , no other remains of waterconducting features have survived in this room. 548  

Probably the niche in the northern wall in this room originally contained the water boiler, serving the adjacent  caldarium   20  to the north (  Fig. 88 ). 549  

From here both the hot and probably also the cold water were conducted to the bath tub on the other side of the partition wall. 550 

 Since this wall between  l  and  20  is heavily restored, no remains of the pipes or even openings for them have survived.

 Whether these features were removed already in antiquity, either before the eruption or soon after it by looters or in connection with the excavation is unknown, due to the lack of reports.

 In corridor  h²  two concave and  parallel indentations from two round features such as pipes (diam. 0.04 m, preserved length 1.2 m) run in a north-south direction along the west wall at a height of 1.1 m with a slight downward incline (  Fig. 89 ). 

The form and dimension of these indentations indicate that they stem from two parallelly- placed lead pipes, run   Sent from the all new AOL app for iOS