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Agriculture

AGRICULTURE

Clothing and Textiles

CLOTHING AND TEXTILES

Furniture

FURNITURE

Illness and Diseases

ILLNESS AND DISEASES

Industry

INDUSTRY

Leisure

LEISURE

Work

WORK

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A tradesman selling tools and pots in the Forum (marketplace) of Pompeii. Inv.8069
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A tradesman selling tools and pots in the Forum (marketplace) of Pompeii...

Dionysian scene and Erotes harvesting grapes; blue vase in double-layer glass, engraved in cameo-glass technique. 1st CE. From a tomb on the Via dei Sepolchri, Pompeii. Inv.13521
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Dionysian scene and Erotes harvesting grapes; blue vase in double-laye...

"The dancers", five bronze statues, 146-155 cm, from the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum, where they lined the small canal traversing the garden. They may represent women carrying water rather than dancers. Inv. 5604-21
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"The dancers", five bronze statues, 146-155 cm, from the Villa of the Pa...

Landscape with rites of Isis: the ceremony of mourning Osiris (his antropomorphous sarcophagus in the center). The landscape is inspired by Upper Egypt. From the Ekklesiasterion in Pompeii 1,68
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Landscape with rites of Isis: the ceremony of mourning Osiris (his...

Atrium of the House of Obellius Firmus, Pompeii. In the center a "cartibulum", a table with a cylindrical base, on which stood the fountain- statue of a faun, behind it a marble table. 1st CE
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Atrium of the House of Obellius Firmus, Pompeii. In the center a "cartibulum", a...

Garden furniture, marble; atrium of the House of Obellius Firmus, Pompeii. In the center a "cartibulum", a table with cylindrical base, on which stood the fountain-statue of a faun. 1st CE
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Garden furniture, marble; atrium of the House of Obellius Firmus, Pompeii. In th...

Garden and peristyle, House of the Vettii, Pompeii. Marble tables, fountains and geometrical flower-beds are typical of Pompeiian taste in the 1st CE.
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Garden and peristyle, House of the Vettii, Pompeii. Marble tables, fountains and...

A mural, showing the god Priapus, was meant to protect the wealth of the Vettii family against jealousy and envy. House of the Vettii, Pompeii.
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A mural, showing the god Priapus, was meant to protect the wealth of the Vettii...

Small marble table in the garden of the House of the Stags, Herculaneum.
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Small marble table in the garden of the House of the Stags, Herculaneum.

Kitchen range with cooking vessels, Pompeii. 1st CE
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Kitchen range with cooking vessels, Pompeii. 1st CE

Thermopolium, a tavern of the 1st CE, Pompeii. There were 89 of these taverns or bars in Pompeii. Citizens went there before dinner, to have hot wine mixed with water, or a quick snack. Drinks and food were kept hot in the jars sunk into the counter.
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Thermopolium, a tavern of the 1st CE, Pompeii. There were 89 of these t...

Oven of the baker Popidius Priscus, two grain mills on either side.
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Oven of the baker Popidius Priscus, two grain mills on either side.