Terracotta relief of a metal workshop (14259)

From the facade of tomb 29 of the Isola Sacra necropolis.
W. 0.405, h. 0.415.
We see two men, busy in a workshop. The upper, bearded man is standing next to a chest on two legs, with a handle on the front and seemingly the head of a dog on the left side. He seems to be sharpening or polishing an object. The lower, bearded man is seated at an anvil and is fashioning a tool. Most of the relief is taken up by tools: scissors, a meat cleaver, knives, a surgical instrument, a hatchet or bag, a shearing knife, an awl, a hoe, a small hammer, a cobbler's knife, an anvil with two horns, a saw, and pliers.

Arachne 1074213. Floriani Squarciapino 1959, nr. 3. Zimmer 1982, cat. nr. 119. Photo: American Academy Rome.