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A grand room with doors leading off to the sides. In the centre a marble pool sits directly under a hole in the roof.
The atrium of the House of Menander in Pompeii.
A statue of a woman wearing a long flowing garment and a veil.
A statue of Eumachia from the building on the east side of the Forum in Pompeii.
A statue of a man wearing a toga. In each hand he holds a bust of another man, one is resting on a plinth.
This statue, from the late first century bc, shows a Roman citizen wearing a toga. He is proudly holding the carved portraits of his ancestors, a display of the hereditary nature of his citizenship.
A marble column with a swirly decoration at the top. On top of the column is a block with a semi-spherical hollow. A needle sticks straight out and the sun from above casts the shadow of the needle. A Roman sundial on top of a column, in front of the temple of Apollo in Pompeii. The location is appropriate as Apollo was the god of the Sun.
A mosaic of a bottle with a long, narrow neck and a handle. Each bottle (urceus) has a slightly different label. This one says:
G. F. SCOM / SCAURI / EX OFFI / NA SCAU / RI / G(ari) F(los) SCOM(bri) SCAURI / EX OFFI(ci)NA SCAURI
The flower (i.e. top quality) mackerel garum of Scaurus from the workshop of Scaurus. (Scaurus’ finest mackerel garum from his workshop.)
A wall painting showing an architectural scene. In the foreground are pillars painted in red and gold and behind them are buildings and gardens, all brightly painted.
A section of painted wall from a cubiculum in the Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor, in the countryside just outside Pompeii.
A photo showing large clay vessels half-buried in the ground. Their lids with handles sit on top.
Dolia for fermenting wine, from the Villa Regina, in the countryside near Pompeii.
A mosaic of three men treading grapes in a box. Below are three large vessels collecting the crushed grape juice, and around them are vines.
Workers crushed the grapes by treading on them with their bare feet. This mosaic is from Mérida, in modern Spain.
A marble statue which shows a man with a thick beard and a garland and vine leaves around his head holding a little baby and looking at it tenderly.
A Roman statue of Silenus holding the infant Bacchus.
A wide, flat bowl with a black background and figures picked out in red. In the centre a man kneels with his arms and legs stretched out. On either side of him a woman holds his limbs and pulls.
The lid of a Greek bowl showing the Bacchae (followers of Bacchus).
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