The Ten Books on Architecture, 10.7.2

Vitruvius  translated by Joseph Gwilt

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2Above the basin is a cover like an inverted funnel, fitted and fastened to it with a rivet, that the force of the water may not blow it off. On this a pipe, called a trumpet, is fixed upright. Below the lower orifices of the pipes the buckets are furnished with valves over the holes in their bottoms.

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