Herculaneum, past, present and future (1908) (14779710801)

Identifier: herculaneumpastp00wald (find matches)
Title: Herculaneum, past, present & future
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Waldstein, Charles, Sir, 1856-1927 Shoobridge, Leonard Knollys Haywood
Subjects: Art, Greco-Roman
Publisher: London : Macmillan and Co., limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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sque scene is afforded bypay-day, after midday each Saturday. The workmen, eachbringing his tools, are all grouped together in a large semi-circle, according to their sections and gangs, and are calledup by name. The chief and the staff are seated in themiddle of the circle. As each workman advances to receivehis pay in a small open envelope, he deposits his tools, to beresumed by him on the following Monday. There mayexceptionally be some word of praise or blame or warningaddressed to individuals. This also applies to sections or gangs.Occasionally some form of address referring to the work, todiscipline, or to matters concerning the enterprise as a whole, isdelivered by the chief of the staff. But here too, among theworkmen as among the staff, the espi-k de corps, encouragedamong the gangs and sections, is impressed upon the body ofthe workmen as a whole, and every means used to quickentheir intelligent interest in the enterprise and the higher aimswhich inspire all concerned in it.
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O J. Q O CHAPTER IV AFTER EXCAVATION In the last chapter we left the chief of gang as he had inspected the objects coming from his works after they were deposited in the large shed, with his own list in his hand ; and this list, having been verified, was copied out by the inspector of the shed. We now follow him as he wends his way up to Resina and enters a large house with the sign Archivio degli Scavi. This house contains numerous offices with clerks, and might, from its appearance, be a bank or any large business house. He enters a room where he is received by the chief of this office, to whom he hands his day-book. A large day-book marked with the section and number of his works (e.g. F, 6) is produced, and, according to the date, the day-book of the chief of gang is copied out, including his account of buildings, walls, frescoes, and all the list of objects found, as deposited in the shed. This day-book is subsequently passed on to another office where the large ledgers are kept