10:00 to 12:00
Lecture

Ancient uses of olive oil and its by-products

Jean-Pierre Brun
Olive trees and olive oil in antiquity (1)
10:00 to 12:00
    Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    • Pressing: direct pressure instruments, torsion presses, lever presses, lever presses and suspended blocks, lever presses and winch fixed between uprights - study, translation and interpretation of Cato De agricultura 18:Torcularium si aedifiare voles. Lever and screw presses, wedge presses, presses with central or lateral screws.
    • Scourtins and chests(regulae).
    • Decanting.
    • Work in the oil mill.

    Documents and media

    Speaker(s)

    Jean-Pierre Brun

    Professor at the Collège de France

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