porter-accountant

Updated: June 29, 2025

Between the inner and outer courtyard were two sets of heavier doors and two equally heavy were at the street entrance of the outer courtyard. On the stair-landing was the chained-up porter-accountant seated under the window on a backless stool by a small, heavy accountant's table on which stood a tall clepsydra by his big account-book.

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