The atrium of the House of Menander in Pompeii.
A statue of Eumachia from the building on the east side of the Forum in Pompeii.
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 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.
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 section of painted wall from a cubiculum in the Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor, in the countryside just outside Pompeii.
Dolia for fermenting wine, from the Villa Regina, in the countryside near Pompeii.
Workers crushed the grapes by treading on them with their bare feet. This mosaic is from Mérida, in modern Spain.
A Roman statue of Silenus holding the infant Bacchus.
The lid of a Greek bowl showing the Bacchae (followers of Bacchus).
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