Arch Makers

Originally, a Roman worker who specialized in building rounded vaults or archways, arches being a Roman invention.

"The great latifundia had their own ceramic workshops producing pots for everyday use (opus doliare). Artistic pottery, on the other hand, was made in the towns, especially in Arezzo where production was constantly on the increase, but also at Mutina (Modena), Pollentia, Cumae, Capua, Rhegium and others. There were also many brick factories, for bricks were widely used for building in the Italian towns. The various crafts of the building trade were also to a large extent differentiated into lime burners (calcis coctores), masons (structores), makers of arches (arcuarii), builders of interior walls (parietarii), plasterers (albatrii) and many others."

Claude Mossé, The Ancient World of Work (1969)

[Translated by Janet Lloyd].