Blacksmith’ workshop, Roman relief
Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Aquileia
Stele del fabbro – ElioCiol© http://www.arapacis.it/it/mostra-evento/aquileia-2200
Sarcophagus of Aurelia Tate from Aphrodisias, Roman time Asia Minor (S-415), and detail of the metal or glass workshop scene on the sarcophagus frieze (bottom) (courtesy New York University, Excavations at Aphrodisias)
Columnar Sarcophagi from Aphrodisias: Elite Emulation in the Greek East
Esen Öğüş https://www.jstor.org
Funerary inscription for Aurelia Tate, also called Epithymia [source]
“White marble sarcophagus, with lid, (length W. 2.13). On either side of the central tabella (W. 0.80-0.73 × H. 0.41) are standing draped figures of a woman (left) and a man. Below the tabella are two roughish downward projections at either side and, between them, a relief scene in which two men sit on either side of what appears to be an oven. The left-hand man holds something rectangular and flat which appears to be fed into the ‘oven’; the right-hand one holds a tubular object up to his face and down to the ‘oven’ perhaps a glass-blower’s tube (? or a bellows).”
Sarcophagus with a cobbler and a spinner, of Lucius Atilius Artemas, Claudia Apphias and Titus Flavius Trophimas (large image)
From Ostia.
Arachne 17572. Paribeni 1920, 276. Inscription IG XIV, 929. Inv. nr. 184. Photo: Sarah Bond. [source]
Front of the sarcophagus of Titus Flavius Trophimas with scenes of craftsmen at work, a shoemaker and a rope-maker, found in Ostia, National Museum of Rome, Baths of Diocletian [Carole Raddato wiki]
2nd C Relief with the scene of preparing wall decorations. From Sens (Yonne), Roman time Gaul.
“On the left, seated on the staircase, the works manager consults the decoration project. Below, on the right, the young boy is wasting the lime. On the scaffolding, to the right, the craftsman spreads the plaster with a float; on the left, the painter begins to apply his colors. Do the two parallel lines drawn at the top of the wall rather give the location of a cornice?”
From the Alix Barbet database >> http://www.archeo.ens.fr/Decors-antiques.html?lang=en
Photo: BARBET, Alix, CNRS-ENS-Paris; Précisions n° arch. photo 93/39/3