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Millstones in a Roman Bakery

These lava stone millstones (2nd–3rd c. AD) come from a large bakery in Ostia Antica. Their hourglass shape held a rotating upper stone turned by humans or animals to grind grain. The presence of multiple mills in one room reveals the industrial scale of bread production in the Roman world, essential to feeding the densely populated port city.
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