Part of a Roman stone olive press known as trapetum

Part of a Roman stone olive press known as Trapetum (olive press). The device consisted of a large stone bowl (mortarium) into which the olives were poured and then crushed unter two concave stonees. Found incorporated in a rubble wall in Tas-Salvatur Road, at Tas-Salvatur, limits of Xewkija, Malta. Gozo Museum of Archaeology. Cittadella de Victoria. Gozo, Malta

Extraction Fragment Gozo Olive Shred Shredding

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