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THE MODERN RESTORATIONS IN POMPEII
In 1980, a few days before the tremendous earthquake which provoked serious damage to houses in Pompeii, fortunately a photo campaign of the entire archaeological area had just finished: 18,000 frames were taken. With the arrival of substantial, although not exhaustive funding, a team of restorers has made a number of interventions, including the consolidation of walls. They haven’t used reinforced concrete anymore, causing irreversible damage, but also materials used in antiquity as wood, bricks and mortar.
Regarding the roofs of buildings, the archaeologists gear the solutions to the different cases: where it is possible, they opt for a philological reconstruction of the roofs. When the archaeologists have only a vague idea of the building, they prefer a proposal restoration. Where there is no trace of the original roof, an umbrella-shaped coverage is constructed to protect the building from the weather.
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POMPEII MONUMENT OF THE DAY
Just behind the Large Theatre there’s the Temple of Isis with its entrance in the street of the same name. Originally dating from between the late 2nd and early 1st centuries B.C., it was totally rebuilt after the earthquake of 62 A.D. at the expense of an ex slave who had since made his fortune. The cult of Isis became fairly wide spread during the Hellenistic era due to the religious links the Greeks had with Egypt and the Orient, and it had a particularly large following in Pompeii as the town has strong trading ties with the East. The temple stands on a tall podium situated in the centre of a porticoed courtyard. The cella, which is greater in width than in leng ... continue
RECIPE OF THE DAY OF THE ANCIENT POMPEII
(Apic. 3, 7) Ingredients:
- 1/2 honey melon
- 1/2 water melon
- 500 ml Passum
- a little bit of honey (or Passum)
- 1 tblsp minced parsley
- 1/2 tblsp freshly ground pepper
- a little bit of Liquamen, or a dash of salt
- pennyroyal
- vinegar, if wanted
Instructions:
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Peel, stone and dice the melons. Then cook it in a pan together with spices and herbs until done.
FORBIDDEN POMPEII: IMAGES AND NEWS
Love was a common topic of conversation in Pompeii. Feelings, passions, poetic love, sex, homosexuality, prostitution and so forth were all part of daily life and not a source of prejudice. The concept of “obscenity” seems to have been unknown. Love and sex were considered earthly practices of a man’s life that were encouraged by the benevolence of Venus. The thousands of examples of graffiti found on the town’s walls are unequivocal proof of what the people of Pompeii thought about love and sex.