consisted in the manufacturing of lamps,[1148] which were so generally in use, that, throughout the Greek and the Roman world, the sites of cities, the ruins of temples, and the sepulchral chambers excavated beneath the earth, lavishly abound with them, entire or in fragments.[1149] Hyperbolos is said to have amassed a considerable fortune by selling lamps of an inferior quality.[1150] Wax-candles, however, were likewise in use, at least in later ages,[1151] and with the same materials they fashioned artificial pomegranates and other ornaments, together with small portable images of animals, men, and gods, which, like our figures of plaster of Paris, were sold, as well as those of clay, about the streets. Some notion, too, may be formed of the price, since we find that a figure of Eros fetched a drachma.[1152] ----- Footnote 1143: Herodot. iii. 6. A large branch of the potter’s business consisted in the manufacture of earthen pipes used in conveying water to towns and cities. See Chandler, Travels, &c. i. 22. seq. 133. Footnote 1144: Schol. Aristoph. Pac. 614. Footnote 1145: Winkelmann, Hist, de l’Art. t. i. p. 30, seq. Footnote 1146: “Morning Chronicle,” July 17, 1838, p. 3, where we find an account of several of these jars dug up at Exeter. Footnote 1147: Athen. vi. 15. Footnote 1148: These were filled with the ἀρύταινα, a brazen ladle. Schol. Arist. Eq. 1087. Æropos, king of Macedon, was an amateur lamp-maker, devoting his leisure hours to the manufacture of diminutive lamps and tables, just as other kings used to unbend their minds, after the enjoyment of luxury, by painting, playing the flute, or wielding the turning-lathe. Plut. Demet. § 20. Footnote 1149: Herodot. ii. 62. Cf. Sophocl. Aj. 285, sqq. Footnote 1150: Aristoph. Eq. 1301. Vesp. 1001. Footnote 1151: Vid. Plin. xiii. 27. xvi. 70, cum not. Hard.—Antipat. ap. Anthol. Græc. vi. 249. Footnote 1152: Anacreon, 10. Athen. viii. 50. Suid. v. κοροπλάθοι t. ii. p. 1500. a. -----