altar-hook

Updated: May 19, 2025

When they had set it down in full view of all and near the tribunal one of them shook out and folded four-thick a thin Spanish blanket of harsh wiry wool and spread the square of it by the brazier, squatting on it to tend the coals with a long- handled five pronged altar-hook.

Edward Lucas White - Andivius Hedulio : Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire