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This is the only building in Pompeii which was originally built as a laundry and fuller’s workshop; the three other establishments of this kind were restructured residential buildings. The fuller’s workshop provided services to numerous clothiers, wool makers and tailors working in the town. According to the electoral slogans painted on the façade (“the united fullers recommend… Stephanus recommends’), the establishment has been attributed to a certain Stephanus. A press used to fold cloth was placed against the left wall of the large entrance hall. Past the entrance hall, we enter an atrium with a flat roof which served as a terrace to hang out the washing. Finer c ... continue
RECIPE OF THE DAY OF THE ANCIENT POMPEII
PULLUM FRONTONIANUM (Chicken a la Fronto)
(Apic. 6, 9, 13) Ingredients:
1 fresh chicken (approx. 1-1.5 kg)
100 ml oil
200 ml Liquamen or 200 ml wine + 2 tsp salt
1 branch of leek
Fresh dill
Fresh savory
Coriander
Pepper to taste
a little bit of Defritum (or wine syrup)
Instructions:
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Start to fry chicken and season with a mixture of Liquamen and oil,
together with bunches of dill, leek, savory and fresh coriander. Then
cook approximately 1 hour with 220 deg C in the oven. When the chicken
is done, moisten a plate with Defritum ... continue
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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.